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BioinformaTics:
BroaD & inTense
Bioinformatics major
at Kettering University
As a Bioinformatics student your curriculum will be as
broad and inter-disciplinary as the field itself. During
your first two years you will take courses in Biology,
Chemistry, Computer Science and Mathematics. Once
you have built a solid foundation in these areas, you
are ready to probe the mysteries of genetic coding and
learn how to algorithmically analyze and exploit the
information contained in a strand of DNA.
In Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics you
will learn how the organic chemical building blocks
are structured into genetic structures. You will learn
how the information contained in these structures
determines and controls life itself.
Your advanced Computer Science courses will enable
you to efficiently store and retrieve the information
UnconsTrAineD encoded in genetic structures. You will apply
computationally intensive techniques like pattern
recognition, data mining, visualization and machine
learning to help understand biological processes.
You will graduate with the skills, confidence,
professionalism and experience necessary to assume
positions of technical and/or managerial leadership as
your career develops.
Understanding Bioinformaticists apply the You could work for Archer-Daniels-
Genetic Encodings principles of biochemistry, biology, Midland creating new strands of
Bioinformatics plays a central role chemistry and computer science corn that more efficiently produce
ethanol. You could work at other
in research and government labs,
in understanding genetic encodings pharmaceutical companies and alternative fuel companies
and exploiting this knowledge agri-businesses. They search for pioneering the use of algae in
to improve the health and well- patterns of similarity, specific the production of “green energy.”
being of a global population. Food amino acid sequences and ways You could work at countless
production, health care, the state to exploit the vast amounts of pharmaceutical companies
of the environment, even national information contained in DNA developing new drugs to fight
security are areas of concern for molecules. disease.
bioinformaticists.
