Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

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Career options

Graduates of the program will become bioinformatics experts working in the fields of personalized medicine, pharmacy, biotechnology, software development, and many others. Moreover, specialists with a Master’s degree may further pursue their academic careers by entering leading PhD programs in Systems Biology and related fields.

Program description

Currently, computational methods are widely used in biology mostly due to the fact that research inevitably comes with Big Data. Thus, future specialists need to possess the skills to be able to work with large amounts of data and to interpret them correctly. 

Our program trains a new generation of professionals capable of developing and applying bioinformatics methods to solve unconventional problems arising in fundamental and experimental biology. Students will gain an opportunity to complete the full path from high-throughput data to computational analysis and to testable hypotheses in several research fields.

Specializations

1. Data Analysis in Biology: the specialization is aimed at students with biological and medical backgrounds wishing to master the skills of programming, data processing, and statistical analysis and their application in different fields of bioinformatics.

2. Algorithmic Bioinformatics: the specialization is designed for students with informatics, mathematics, and other technical backgrounds who want to apply their knowledge in bioinformatics. It also includes advanced courses in statistics and algorithms, as well as introductory courses in molecular biology.

Benefits

• The program is conducted by ITMO's International Laboratory “Computer Technologies” in collaboration with the Bioinformatics Institute in St. Petersburg;

• Students will learn from some of the best computer science experts from ITMO and biology specialists from all over the world;

• Students have the opportunity to do their internships at major research institutions and laboratories, as well as work on projects under the supervision of world-class professors from Washington University in St. Louis, Broad Institute, Harvard Medical School, etc.