Curriculum

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The curriculum of the Bachelor Degree in Bioinformatics (BBI) is compliant with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and its academic load is 240 ECTS:

  • 60 core credits
  • 126 other compulsory credits
  • 30 elective credits
  • 24 credits for the degree final project

Study plan structure

Subjects are divided into semesters. There are two semesters in each academic year. There are ten subjects in the first year worth 6 ECTS credits each.

The figure below shows how the curriculum for the Degree in Bioinformatics is divided up.

 

Semester 1

Introduction to Bioinformatics
6 ECTS

Cellular Biology
6 ECTS

Algebra
6 ECTS

Applied Programming I
6 ECTS

Physical chemistry and Organic Chemistry
6 ECTS

Semester 2

Molecular Biology
6 ECTS

Biochemistry
6 ECTS

Calculus
6 ECTS

Applied Programming II
6 ECTS

Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
6 ECTS

Semester 3

Discrete math and optimization
6 ECTS

Databases
6 ECTS

Genetics and Genomics
6 ECTS

Applied Programming III
6 ECTS

Biostatistics and Data Analysis
6 ECTS

Semester 4

Physiology and Neurobiology
6 ECTS

Data Visualization
6 ECTS

Algorithms on Biology
6 ECTS

Networks and Systems Biology
6 ECTS

Statistical Models and Stochastic Processes
6 ECTS

Semester 5

Data structures and algorithms
6 ECTS

Statistical Learning
6 ECTS

Biophysics
6 ECTS

Computational genomics
6 ECTS

Population Genetics and molecular evolution
6 ECTS

Semester 6

Structural bioinformatics
6 ECTS

Machine learning
6 ECTS

Omics techniques
6 ECTS

High Performance Computing
6 ECTS

Phylogenomic and comparative genomics
6 ECTS

Semester 7

Elective
6 ECTS

Elective
6 ECTS

Elective
6 ECTS

Elective
6 ECTS

Elective
6 ECTS

Semester 8

Degree Final Project
24 ECTS

Ethics and Scientific Communication
6 ECTS

Elective Subjects

Elective subjects can be taken in the 7th and 8th semesters. A total amount of 30 ECTS credits must be obtained from a combination of any of the following activities: 

  • Taking optional subjects worth 6 ECTS credits each from several degrees (Biology, Genetics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, etc.) from the promoting universities.
  • Going to a university abroad on a mobility programme.
  • Doing internships on companies, research entities or departments where you will be trained on a professional environment.