Academic Requirements: M.Sc. Studies
in Life Sciences

Biology

*	Exemptions must be approved by the Board of Studies. Previous work or summer programs may not be considered as rotations.
**	Courses must be taken from the Life Sciences program. Any deviation must be approved, in advance, by the Board of Studies.

Bioinformatics - Biology Track

Duration	24 months
Credit Points*	26 credit points (at least 18 within the 1st year)
Safety Course	Obligatory (no credit points)
Ethics Course	Obligatory (no credit points)
Courses	At least 8 credit points: Bioinformatics At least 6 credit points: CS & Math At least 6 credit points: Biology At least 2 credit points: Technical The remainder of credit points from the programs in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Math & CS and Chemical Sciences
Thesis	Should be submitted by the 24th month
M.Sc. Exam	Within 1 month of the thesis submission deadline

Below please find the various groups of courses available in 2009/2010:

Bioinformatics		Computer Science
Introduction to Computational Genomics *		FUN "Faculty" Union "New students" Seminar
Genome Evolution		Basic Topics I
Protein Structure and Function I		Basic Topics II
Advanced Protein Science		Algorithms
Principles of biomolecular networks		Combinatorial statistics
		Ergodic theory
* Obligatory		Introduction to Complexity Theory
Biology		Technical courses
Developmental Genetics		Perl programming for bioinformatics and internet
Principles of biomolecular networks		Introduction to Bioinformatics
Systems neuroscience		Next-generation Sequencing
The RNA World		Matlab
Basics in Immunology		Scientific writing - Life Sciences
Advanced topics in developmental biology		Photoshop
Selected models of dynemic brain processing
Basic Models in Theoretical Neuroscience
Cell guidance and behavior at the Molecular Level: from bacteria to humans