Bioinformatics


Faculty and Staff Listing

Chair
Ilia Binder
Room 3016, Deerfield Hall
905-569-4381
chairmcs.utm@utoronto.ca

Program Advisors
A.J. Bonner
Deerfield Hall, Room 3090
bonner@cs.utoronto.ca

Daniel Zingaro
Deerfield Hall, Room 3078
daniel.zingaro@utoronto.ca

Sanja Hinic-Frlog
William G. Davis Bldg., Room 3002
Sanja.hinic.frlog@utoronto.ca

Academic Advisor and Undergraduate Program Administrator
Yvette Ye
Room 3012, Deerfield Hall
yvette.ye@utoronto.ca
www.utm.utoronto.ca/math-cs-stats/welcome

Admissions to the Bioinformatics Specialist Program (ERSPE1868) are administratively suspended as of 2023-2024. Summer 2023 was the final opportunity for students to request enrolment in this subject post. Students enrolled in the program will be allowed to continue.

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary science that combines Biology, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics and Chemistry. Bioinformatics is the managing of large amounts of biological information generated from research using advanced computational methods/programs.

The Specialist program includes various courses in genetics and molecular biology which will put into context the vast amounts of genomic data and how it is isolated, sequenced and analyzed.  Furthermore, the computer science courses will give you the foundation to write your own computer programs as needed to analyze large amounts of data that would not be able to be done by hand in a timely manner. This program also provides a solid foundation in mathematics and statistics that will also help you to design and analyze experiments.

Bioinformatics is used in research that looks at the genetic make-up of an entire organism.  Some of its many applications are in medicine or biology.

This program is offered through the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences.