The Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics teaches students the basics of bioinformatics thinking, methodology and applications and offers hands-on experience with computers and bioinformatics tools. Required courses include basic unix skills, genomics data, common bioinformatics software, relational databases and web resources. It is cross-disciplinary in nature and introduces the students to many application areas (for example medicine, agriculture, chemistry) through the courses and instructors. The Certificate is completed in one term (Winter).
生物信息学的研究生证书向学生传授生物信息学思想、方法和应用的基础知识，并提供计算机和生物信息学工具的实践经验。所需的课程包括基本的UNIX技能、基因组学数据、一般生物信息学软件、关系数据库和网络资源。它是跨学科性质的并且让学生们能够接触应用领域(例如医学、农业、化学)。该证书是在一个学期(冬季)完成的。