Establishing a master's degree programme in Bioinformatics: Challenges and opportunities

IEE Proceedings Systems Biology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 269-275

  Sahinidis, Nikos V ^a   Harandi, M T ^a   Heath, M T ^a   Murphy, L ^a   Snir, M ^a   Wheeler, R P ^a   Zukoski, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics MS degree program; Biomedical education; Departmental specialisation areas; Interdisciplinary program; Medical computing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; EDUCATION;

BIOINFORMATICS; INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS; MATABOLIC ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENE TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; MASTERS EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; ILLINOIS; SCIENCE; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 31144470055     PISSN: 17412471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-syb:20050033     Document Type: Article

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