Bioinformatics
The last decade has seen unprecedented changes in biotech, biomedicine, biomanufacturing, and bioengineering. Most of it is fueled by new genomics and other omics technologies that generate massive amount of data, but also do so at a higher and higher resolution going down to single molecules and single cells. The resulting data need to be interpreted carefully, because a single mutation in a base (e.g., “SNP”) could be the cause of a disease. The resulting data is massive, as biotech’s Moore’s law grows exponentially (doubling every five months in comparison to computers’ doubling every eighteen months).
We at Tandon are educating and nurturing tomorrow’s biotech rock-stars, who can address infectious diseases (e.g., Zika or Ebola), genetic diseases (e.g., Cancer, Alzheimer or Autism), public health (Personalized Health Care Program, Diabetes or Obesity), agriculture (e.g., GMO, Genetically Modified Organisms) and green technology (e.g., Energy or GHG(Green House Gas)-sequestration.
This NY State approved program meets industry’s demand for professionals with solid foundations in genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics; Algorithms, statistics and biotechnology; programming (Python, Perl and R); data science, AI and ML; sequence and pathway analysis, as well as a host of genome informatics tools and algorithms such as BLAST, BioPython, BioPerl, Bioconductor, and UCSC genome browser.
Tandon also provides a bridge program to prepare students with insufficient background in core computer science before admission.
Students who earn a Bioinformatics Advanced Certificate may apply those credits towards the Bioinformatics Master’s Degree. Note that only 9 credits from the Advanced Certificate can be used towards the Bioinformatics Master Degree program.
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