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Academic Requirements: M.Sc. Studies
in Mathematics and Computer Science

Duration
 		 24 months

Credit Points*
 

 30 credit points (at least 18 within the 1st year)
1st year Student Seminar
  		Obligatory (no credit points).
Research Proposal
  		Should be submitted by the 12th month

Thesis
 

Should be submitted by the 24th month
M.Sc. Exam
  		Within 1 month of the thesis submission deadline

*

Must be taken from the Bioinformatics program (see below). Deviations must be approved, in advance, by the Board of Studies.
**

First year students may obtain credit points for projects. Each project will ordinarily involve 8 hours of effort per week for 15 weeks and will carry a maximum of 2 credits. There is a limit of one project per semester, and a student cannot get credit for two projects with the same supervisor. All projects must be approved by the Board of Studies


Bioinformatics - Mathenatics and Computer Science Track

Duration
 		 24 months

Credit Points*
 

 30 credit points (at least 18 within the 1st year)
1st year Student Seminar
  		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

 

   Decisions under uncertainty and games
* Obligatory

  Introduction to Complexity Theory

 

  Ergodic 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
  Cell guidance and behavior at the Molecular Level: from bacteria to humans