Bioinformatics
The bioinformatics program can be taken as part of any of the M.Sc. programs in biology: Evolutionary and Environmental Biology,
Required courses
The introductory course “Research Methodologies in Bioinformatics” is compulsory for all students:
Semester A
Course Name | Lecturer | Hours | Course No. |
| Python programing* | 3 |
* A programming course is compulsory for students who didn’t learn programming in their previous studies. Students that studied a programming course can ask for an exemption.
Semester A
Course Name | Lecturer | Hours | Course No. |
| Research Methodologies in Bioinformatics | Martin Mikl, Uri Hershberg | 4 | 221.4425 |
Mandatory-elective courses
A total of 12 points is required, including the mandatory courses above and courses from the following list.
Course name | Lecturer | Hours | Course No. |
Semester A | |||
Algorithms in computational genomics | Sagi Snir | 3 | 221.4424 |
| Biological Regulation in Development: from Genes to Embryos (once every two years) | Smadar Ben Tabou De Leon | 2 | 227.4018 |
| R language | Eran Tauber | 3 | 221.5408 |
| Genomic mapping (will not take place in the academic year 2024-2025) | Eyal Privman | 2 | 221.4406 |
| Marine microbiology | Daniel Sher | 2 | 227.4006 |
| Research seminar in quantitative biology and modeling | Daniel Sher | 2 | |
| Between the semesters: Advanced workshop in bioinformatics | Daniel Sher, Eyal Privman | 3 | |
Semester B | |||
Martin Mikl | 3 | 225.4412 | |
| Structural biophysics and bioinformatics | Mickey Kosloff | 4 | |
Statistical methods in genomics | Sagi Snir | 3 | 221.4420 |
| Foundations of molecular evolution | Eyal Privman | 2 | 221.4412 |
| Biological clocks | Eran Tauber | 2 | 221.4023 |
| Microbial evolution | Sarit Avrani | 2 | 221.4022 |
| Applications of machine learning in biology | David Deutsch | 3 | 222.4036 |
| Applications of machine learning in healthcare | Ortal Dayan | 3 | 286.4112 |
| In the summer: Data science summer school | David Deutsch | 3 |
Winter workshops in bioinformatics
Every year we are holding a one-week advanced workshop in bioinformatics during the semester break:
8-12/2/2015: Workshop on Environmental Genomics and the Human Microbiome
21-25/2/2016: Transcriptomics! workshop
5-9/2/2017: Workshop on omics of non-model organisms
18-22/2/2018: Workshop on statistics and data visualization for omics
17-21/2/2019: Workshop on omics of omics of environmental and host-associated microbiomes
9-13/2/2020: Transcriptomics! workshop
2/2020: Transcriptomics! workshop
14-18/2/2021: Workshop on multi-omics and machine learning
29/1-2/2/2023: From genome to metabolism
17-21/3/2024: Workshop on population genomics
* For info please contact Eyal Privman or Daniel Sher.