生物学理学学士-生物信息学

生物学课程通过核心课程和专门研究领域的高级课程为学生提供有关生物科学的广泛知识。强调了动手实践教学实验室技术和现场工作的方法。在整个计划中，鼓励学生发展有效的沟通技巧，并了解生物学对社会和全球的影响。学生可以攻读生物学专业，攻读生物学或心理生物学的辅修课程，或攻读生物信息学专业。满足医学，牙科，兽医，验光，执业护士，医师助理，物理治疗和药学计划要求的先决条件可以通过专注于预医学的生物学专业来满足。也可以通过生物学专业完成带有MCPHS的加速药学计划。<br> <br>这种跨学科集中的目的是让学生为进入生物
The Biology program provides students with a broad knowledge in the biological sciences through a core curriculum and upper-level courses in specialized areas of study. A hands-on approach for teaching laboratory techniques and field work is emphasized. Throughout the program, students are encouraged to develop effective communication skills and an awareness of the societal and global implications of biology. Students may pursue a major in Biology, minors in Biology or Psychobiology, or a concentration in Bioinformatics. The pre-requisites necessary to meet the requirements of medical, dental, veterinary, optometry, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, physical therapy, and pharmacy programs may be satisfied through a biology major with a concentration in Pre-Medicine. The Accelerated Pharmacy Program with MCPHS also can be completed through the Biology major. <br><br>The purpose of this interdisciplinary concentration is to prepare students to enter the computer-intensive fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, computational chemistry, and molecular modeling including genomics and proteomics. With the ever increasing number of fully sequenced genomes, including the human genome, databases such as GenBank and EMBL have grown at such a rate that storing, organizing, indexing, and ultimately mining the data have become key to answering biological questions. Questions of gene expression have led to computational biology, the process of analyzing genomic sequences and to the field of proteomics, the understanding of protein structure and function. The information obtained by computational biology and computational chemistry is used in the design of new drugs to treat a variety of diseases. Major drug and biotechnology companies are seeking people trained in bioinformatics.