Master programme Bioinformatics (E)

Contents and focus of the degree programme:

The study of Bioinformatics is a relatively new area of study and has developed into an interdisciplinary science combining life sciences and informatics. Bioinformatics uses and develops methods of informatics to solve problems from the areas of physics, biology, chemistry, medicine or mathematics. Data from medicine and pharmaceutical areas can be managed, visualised, analysed, interpreted, compared and simulated using methods of bioinformatics. The aim is to learn methods of working in bioinformatics, analytical and logical thinking, understanding and describing of complex contexts in order to quickly grasp questions and problems and use the techniques of informatics in an efficient way or to adapt them and to scrutinise them critically. Graduates in the field of bioinformatics have access to various professional occupations as this area of interdisciplinary studies combines life sciences and IT education. Graduates can work in areas of pharmaceutical, chemical and food technology but also in software companies that develop software for biologists, physicists, medical doctors and chemists.