MA/MS in Bioinformatics: Biology is a master's degree in Biological Sciences programme taught at Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania. The programme runs for 4 semesters.
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Degree:Master's Degree
Field:Biological Sciences
Duration: 4 semesters
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This Master's programme in Bioinformatics is taught in English and run by the Life Sciences Center of Vilnius University together with the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics. This entry is the Biology track of a new study programme that links computer science with the life sciences.
Teaching covers the analysis of biological data with computational methods, building software tools, and tackling hard biological questions with bioinformatics together with machine learning and AI methods. In the first semester students reinforce their grounding in biology or computer science according to their earlier studies. The second semester addresses machine learning and omics data analysis alongside a project inside a research team or firm, and the third adds phylogenetics, structural bioinformatics and a second project. The fourth semester is reserved for writing and defending the Master's thesis.
More than 30 electives are available across several university faculties.
Admission Requirements: Undergraduate diploma or higher; for non-EU/EFTA applicants no more than five years may have passed since the Bachelor degree was completed. A Bachelor or equivalent degree in molecular biology, biochemistry, computer science, bioinformatics, biology, cell biology, genetics, biotechnology, data science or mathematics. The Bachelor's thesis must have involved experimental research in bioinformatics or related sciences. An overall grade average of at least 70% is required. Eligible applicants are invited to an entrance examination in biochemistry.
