Master Bioinformatics and Biocomplexity, Course schedule

Bioinformatics and BioComplexity (BiBC), course schedule

A little bit of how to read the list of courses below:

In your masters you will have a Theoretical component of 15 EC, with the obligatory courses. This is the essentials course and either introduction to Modelling or Bioinformatics and Genomics, depending on your previous education. Together this amounts up to 9.5 EC.  This means you have 5.5 EC left, which you have to fill up with the courses from the list on the bottom of the page (except for the intro R and Python, those are not part of the masters program). These are the official BiBC courses.  In Period 1 the two main theoretical courses are given. Normally course enrolments for period 1 are already in May which is too early for those who start in September, therefore the coordinator of the master program will enrol you instead. So as a starting student (year 1 of the masters) you don’t need to worry about the first courses!

Below you will see a schedule, this schedule is made to help you plan, not as an exact … this is the way it has to be.. list. Because if you add up all the EC’s of the courses listed you will go well beyond 15EC..  Luckily you also have an ELECTIVE component which is 12 EC in total. You may fill those 12 EC with our bioinformatics courses, but you are also allowed to look elsewhere at what is offered at the University! (use this link to search the course catalogus)

As mentioned above, we have decided to offer all our Bioinformatics courses in Period 1,2 and Period 3, and were possible back to back without much overlap. Again you can also choose other courses (for the electives), that is fine, but you have to schedule them yourselves. They may overlap, or even been given in a different period. This is not a problem, but it is up to you to make it work in your schedule. Also important to know, it is not a problem to combine your major research project with courses! Actually that is the way to do it.

It is the idea is that you start a Major Research Project before January, that would be most efficient. Perhaps you have seen a great group and topic? And maybe that topic requires you to learn a little bit more about a certain bioinformatics or biocomplexity item which is possibly given in one of our courses 😉

Updated June 2023

(FC = Free choice course that can be taken as part of the theoretical phase or Electives)

Period 1: Theoretical (obligatory) courses (Osiris numbers can be found in the table at the end)

* Together with the coordinator it will be decided which course you will follow.

Period 2

Period 3: and further, preferably you now have also started with your Major Research Project, Minor, Writing assignment and so on.

An overview of all UBC/BiBC courses offered + Osiris code

*** these are bachelor courses and can only be followed as a mandatory component in case you have some deficiencies in your background knowledge.

For those interested in a bit more Modelling/BioComplexity/Mathematics:

The list below is a number of recommended courses. The first 4 are bachelor courses, which means you maybe can follow them but won’t get full credits (EC) and you need permission from the Board of Examiners.
The last 3 courses are really nice master level courses. Be aware that we cannot guarantee enrolment in these courses, as they are officially offered in an other masters programme. But if you are interested, let the BiBC coordinator know and we can try to get you enrolled.

• Numerical Mathematics (WISB251). <- Bachelor 2 (P2)
• Introduction Scientific Computing (WISB356) <- Bachelor 3 (P3)
• Game Theory (WISB272) <- Bachelor 2 (P2)
• Toy Models (SK-BTOYM) <- Bachelor 3 (P4)
• Introduction Numerical Bifurcation Analysis (WISL606) <- Master, (8EC) SEM2
• Introduction to Complex Systems (WISM484) <- Master (7.5 EC), SEM1
• Seminar mathematical epidemiology (WISM436) <- Master, (7.5 EC), SEM1