Master's Programme Bioinformatics at a glance
- Bioinformatics - A key technology of the 21st century
- Admission
- What's special about this programme?
- Structure and Content
- Info-Foliensatz (PDF, 1.5 MB, in German)
Bioinformatics - A key technology of the 21st century
Bioinformatics is clearly one of the key technologies of the 21st century. Without bioinformatics one of the biggest scientific advances of the last century would not have been possible - the decoding of the human genome - which presents the first fundamental step towards solving the riddle of life. Bioinformatics links computer science, mathematics and life sciences to reach its central goal, namely to understand the molecular biological processes of an organism. Such knowledge opens up new possibilities and applications in various fields:
- In medicine, to understand the causes of diseases like breast cancer and Alzheimer's
- In pharmacology, to develop new drugs against viruses like HIV or bird flu virus.
- In forensics, to solve crimes by genetic fingerprinting
- In phylogenetics, to explore how species are related and find answers to questions like 'Is the Neanderthal an ancestor of modern man?
To this end bioinformatics utilizes methods of computer science and mathematics to analyse, interpret, visualise and simulate biological raw data. A special challenge is posed by the rapidly growing amount of potentially noisy and high dimensional new data.
Admission
Students holding a bachelor or master degree in one of the following subjects may attend this master's programme comprising four semesters:
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Computer Science
- Mathematics
- Mechatronics
- Physics
- Statistics
- Business Informatics
The first semester is a transitional phase of bridge modules that prepares students from various fields for the following courses according to their prior education. Students who successfully complete the master's programme will be awarded a Master of Science degree (MSc).
What is special about the master's programme in bioinformatics?
Interdisciplinarity
This programme offers the chance to
- attend lectures in a variety of subjects at the JKU
- work together with students from various fields
- improve your social competence
Internationality
This programme offers the chance to
- gather experience with international collaborations and projects
- attend talks of internationally renowned experts in bioinformatics
- attend lectures in English
Cutting-edge science
This programme offers the chance to
- be up to date with state of the art technology
- work on the most current research problems
- participate in writing scientific publications
Career opportunities
This programme offers the chance to
- qualify for responsible jobs in industry and research
- work in various fields like pharmaceutics, medicine, biotechnology, food technology and biochemistry
- apply for jobs at national and international companies like
- Upper Austria Research
- DSM fine Chemicals Austria
- Pfizer
- ARC Seibersdorf Research GmbH
- Novartis Austria GmbH
- Roche Austria
Structure and Content
