Bioinformatics

Bachelor of Information Technology (Bioinformatics)

Duration Location Application OP Score Entry Requirements International Availability Fees

3 Years full-time St Lucia QTAC code 733001 Qld OP 12 / Rank 76; ATAR 73.40; IB 26 (2011 entry) Qld Yr 12 or equivalent; English; Mathematics B UQ International What it costs

Bioinformatics is the study of information contained within biological, chemical or medical systems. It is a growing discipline that combines the life sciences and information technology to manage and explore vast amounts of data.

A bioinformatics major within UQ’s Bachelor of Information Technology will give you a strong base to enter the emerging field of computer-based gene analysis. Courses focus on computer science and information systems analysis combined with mathematical and biological sciences electives.

Career pathways

Bioinformaticians work to understand medical and biological systems through the creative application of statistics and computer analysis. They may develop software programs to analyse data in a new way, they may apply existing tools to new data sets, they may introduce novel statistical methodologies into the analysis of data and they may extend existing analysis capabilities to genome-sized data sets.

Although initially associated with the analysis of genetic data produced in sequencing the human genome, bioinformatics methods are now used in a variety of fields including basic science, biotechnology, medicine, pharmaceutical development and public health.

Important Links

Bachlor of Information Technology - Program information and entry requirments

Bioinformatics Major Course List

ICT Enabling Scholarships

UQ Bonus Scheme

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