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About The Program
Combining the power of computing with state-of-the-art health care, Informatics is a highly sophisticated practice that is, in many ways, just now coming out of the lab. The Bioinformatics program combines the study of biology and related sciences to the Informatics, and then relates them to various applications.
The Bioinformatics program is a 12 course, high-level study curriculum that provides an in-depth investigation of an emerging science in a growing marketplace.
Anticipated Audience
The marketplace for bioinformatics professionals meets at the connection point between science, information technology and business. Biotech companies, research labs, health care providers, and other leading edge organizations actively pursue and employ bioinformatics professionals.
As an emerging discipline, we expect demand to be somewhat provider driven. That is to say that we anticipate a provider’s marketing in any of the areas involved – health care, sciences, business, information science – to attract a subset of that audience.
As a discipline that appeals to information scientists, business professionals, and those in the “hard” sciences, we anticipate that the market for the program will include a significant number of highly trained career changers.
The Age of Informatics
Access to information has become so common as to be overwhelming. It is no surprise that some of our best minds have been working on ways to organize, shape, and combine information in ways that energize it until it sparks.
And it “sparks” answers. In leading-edge fields around the world, the most innovative scientists in the world are no longer using computers, software and the Internet to crunch data. They are deploying the world’s most powerful tools to find answers. Answers to questions about health and longevity. Answers that may make the desert bloom.
Answers that will impact our very ways of life.
Bioinformatics
Informatics represents an extension beyond applying computers for information processing. Informatics supports information systems for reasoning, decision-making, and learning.
Bioinformatics represents is a body of knowledge and processes used to organize and manage information in support of research, education and scientific advance.
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