Program Objectives:
By the end of this program, the graduates should be able to:
- Transfer and use fundamental scientific data to suggest improvements in biotechnology, particularly bioinformatics field.
- Acknowledge the obligations of bioinformaticians in society.
- Develop bioinformatics knowledge and develop professional, efficient, succinct, and responsive communication with the scientific community, colleagues, governmental agencies, stakeholders, and the public.
- Show awareness of relevant legal, ethical, and socio-economic bioinformatics issues.
- Apply initiatives and make evidence-based decisions in order to propose and prioritize work plans in conjunction with colleagues to make a swift and timely completion of a bioinformatics project.
- Work successfully as part of a team across disciplines and use critical thinking and problem-solving abilities to provide original solutions to problems in many biotechnology sectors, including bioinformatics.
- Demonstrate a conscious awareness of own values, show respect for bioinformatics-related views of others, and deal with bioinformatics-related ethical problems from various angles.
- Apply self-assessment to work as a lifelong learner for continual professional improvement in bioinformatics.
- Use the right approaches to efficiently develop and carry out bioinformatics research.
- Exhibit strong leadership, management, business, and entrepreneurial abilities in the field of biotechnology, particularly bioinformatics.
Careers that can be pursued:
- Definite career areas that fall within bioinformatics scope are database design & maintenance, proteomics, pharmacology, sequence assembly & analysis, informatics development, bio-analysis, etc.
- Bioinformatics analyst
- Computational biologist
- Biomedical researcher
- Biophysicist, biotechnologist
- Biostatistician
- Clinical lab tech
- Epidemiologist Medical illustrator
- Bioinformatics Software Developer
- Omics Analyst
