Bachelor in Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is a discipline at the interface of the ongoing revolutions in Biology and Computer Science. It aims to analyze and understand biological and biomedical data, in particular at the cellular and molecular level. It involves the development and application of algorithms and computational tools, namely artificial and machine learning, to organize, analyze and extract relevant information from large sets of biological data, confident for advances in areas such as genomics and other omics, genetics, biology of systems, pathology, ecology, evolution, epidemiology, among others. A strong focus on specialization in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at undergraduate level, which results from a joint strategy by FCUP, FFUP, and ICBAS, in close partnership with the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto and a number of research and companies. To respond to this ambition, the course’s curricular structure allows the acquisition of knowledge and skills across biochemistry and biology, mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence and data science.