Bioinformatics

The bioinformatics program can be taken as part of any of the M.Sc. programs in biology: Evolutionary and Environmental Biology,

Required courses

One introductory course is compulsory for all students:

Semester A

Course Name	Lecturer	Credits	Course No.
Research Methodologies in Bioinformatics	Eyal Privman, Martin Mikl	4 points	221.4425
Python programing*	David Deutsch	3 points	221.4425

* 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.

Mandatory-elective courses

A total of 12 points is required, including the mandatory courses above and courses from the following list.

Course name	Lecturer	Pts	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
Structural bioinformatics	Mickey Kosloff	3
R language	Eran Tauber	3	221.5408
Genomic mapping	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
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