The goal of the Bioinformatics Option is to train students to become researchers in the interdisciplinary field of Bioinformatics, which lies at the intersection of biological/medical sciences and mathematics/computer science/engineering. This work includes the development of strategies for experimental design, the construction of tools to analyze datasets, the application of modeling techniques, the creation of tools for manipulating Bioinformatics data, the integration of biological databases and the use of algorithms and statistics. The Bioinformatics Graduate Option consists of a number of interdisciplinary courses, as well as a seminar designed to bring students from many backgrounds together and to provide a thorough overview of research in this field.

生物信息学的教学目标是培养学生成为生物信息学跨学科领域的研究人员，它与生物学/医学和数学/计算机科学/工程等学科领域都有交集。这项工作包括了实验设计策略的发展，分析数据集工具的构建，建模技术的应用，处理生物信息数据的工具的创建，生物数据库的综合以及算法和统计的使用。生物信息学的研究生方向包括许多跨学科的课程，以及一个将不同背景的学生聚集在一起并对这一领域的研究提供一个全面的概述的研讨会。