The University of New South Wales - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Bioinformatics is an emerging discipline at the convergence of computing and life sciences aimed at development of technologies for storing, extracting, organizing, analyzing, interpreting and utilizing the vast amount of information being generated with the recent developments in genomics and related disciplines. It is an interdisciplinary field. Not only have advances in computing helped accelerate the process of data generation, but the need to process and analyze this vast amount of information has led to advances in both software technologies (databases, algorithm design, machine learning and visualization) and hardware architectures. Additionally, there is considerable interest in bioinformatics from researchers in medicine and mathematics.

The major areas of bioinformatics include:

• Storage and retrieval of biological data such as nucleic acid and protein sequence and structure
• Data analysis and mining in areas such as sequence alignment, structural analysis, phylogeny, metabolic pathways and signaling, gene expression
• Graphical representation of complex biological data
• High performance computing techniques to support such areas

Biotechnology

International students must fulfill the English language requirements for entry to the university. UNSW recognizes a number of English Language tests which can be undertaken to meet the University’s English language requirements. The test must have been undertaken no more than two years prior to the commencement of the program at UNSW. The candidates must fulfill one of the following entry requirements:

• IELTS-An overall minimum score of 6.5 is required, together with a minimum score of at least 6.0 in each of the sub-tests of listening, reading, speaking and writing
• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - Internet based test Applicants must achieve an overall minimum score of 90, with a minimum in Writing of 24
• TOEFL - Computer test Applicants must achieve an overall minimum score of 233, with a minimum in Essay rating of 5.0
• TOEFL - Applicants must achieve an overall minimum score of 577 with a minimum score of 5.0 in the TWE in the paper-based format
• UNSW Institute of Languages University English Entry Course - The UEEC is the UNSW Institute of Languages English Entry Course - a 10-week intensive English Language program. The minimum acceptable score is completion of the UEEC with a grade of C+ (grade point 7.0) and with a minimum score of at least 20 in the writing component

Bachelors

Campus

4 Years