BS: Bioengineering - Bioinformatics

A fourth program leads to a B.S. degree in Bioengineering: Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is the study of the flow of the vast amount of information (genetic, metabolic and regulatory) in living systems to provide an integrated understanding of the systems properties of cells and organisms. The Bioengineering: Bioinformatics program provides training in molecular biology, systems engineering analysis, and mathematical and computer sciences. Bioinformatics allows a new understanding of cellular functions, protein structure and design, evolutionary biology, regulatory networks, and the molecular basis of disease, and the generation of novel therapeutics, patient-specific designer drugs, and customized proteins. Bioengineering: Bioinformatics is one of four Bioinformatics programs that have been developed, and offered since fall 2002, by the Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry/Biochemistry, Computer Science and Engineering and the Division of Biology at UCSD. Students wishing to major in Bioinformatics may select a program from any of the departments or Division. Bioengineering: Bioinformatics prepares students for careers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and biomedical software industries or for further studies in graduate school.