It will be possible—and sometimes strongly encouraged—for students to take other graduate level courses (in biology, mathematics and computer science) at UC Denver or from any other UC campus to achieve the appropriate distribution of expertise that the program is seeking in its students. Students must obtain prior approval from their graduate adviser or program director before taking such courses. The following list summarizes some of the available courses in biology, mathematics and computer science that have been identified to fill in deficient content areas of study.

Elective Courses

Computational Bioscience Courses

CPBS 7410 Introduction to Bayesian Statistics.
Credits: 3 semester hours.
Status: elective.
Introduction to Bayesian statistical methods. Covers prior and posterior distributions, conjugate models, single and multi–parameter models, hierarchical models, mixture models, numerical methods for evaluating posterior distributions, Monte Carlo methods and Markov chain Monte Carlo simulations.

CPBS 7655 Statistical methods in Genetic Association Studies
Credits: 3 semester hours.
Status: elective.
This course is designed to give an introduction to statistical methods in genetic association studies.  Topics include an introduction to population genetics topics relevant to genetic association studies, design strategies and analysis methods for case-control and family data.

CPBS 7659 Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
Credits: 2 semester hours.
Status: elective.
Introduction to statistical methods for analyzing molecular sequences and genomic data. Topics include hidden Markov models for sequence alignment, molecular evolution and gene expression data analysis.

CPBS 7660 Statisdtical Analysis for Microarray Technologies
Credits: 2 semester hours.
Status: elective.
This course provides students with hands on experience in analyzing full-scale microarray datat using the statistical software, R and its packages from the Bioconductor consortium, including its usages in varios biological contexts, including SNP, Exon and etc.

CPBS 7710 Survey of Bioinformatics methods
Credits: 2 semester hours.
Status: elective.
What is Bioinformatics and why study it?  How is large-scale molecular biology datat generated, where and how can researcher gain access to it and what computational analyses are possible?

CBPS 7785 Independent Studyin Bioinformatics
Credits: 1 to 3 semester hours.
Prerequisite: BIOI 7711, 7712 and permission of instructor.
Status: elective.
Variable credit depending on the student's needs. This course is listed for the benefit of the advanced student who desires to pursue one or more topics in considerable depth. Supervision by a full-time faculty member is necessary.

CBPS 7791 Readings in Bioinformatics.
Credits: 1 semester hour.
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Status: elective.
This is a seminar style course requiring significant student participation.  Including presenting recent publications.

CBPS 7792 Special Topics in Bioinformatics.
Credits: 1 to 3 semester hours.
Prerequisites: BIOI 7711, 7712 and permission of instructor.
Status: elective.
Variable credit depending on the student's needs. This course is listed to provide opportunities for the advanced student to participate in special courses that periodically address new and emerging technologies, methodologies or related bioinformatics theories. Class participation is required, which differs from the format of the Independent Study course that only requires faculty supervision.

Biostatistics Courses
BIOM 6611 Computer Oriented Statistical Methods I.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

BIOM 6612 Computer Oriented Statistical Methods II.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

BIOM 7711 Longitudinal Data Analysis I.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

BIOM 7712 Longitudinal Data Analysis II.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

BIOM 7733 Generalized Linear Models.
Credits: 2 semester hours.
Biochemistry Courses

BMGN 7600 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

Computer Science Courses
CSC 5451 Algorithms.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CSC 5559 Database Systems.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CSC 5582 Artificial Intelligence.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CSC 6551 Parallel Computation and Architectures.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CSC 5222 Applied Computer Simulation.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

CSC 5682 Expert Systems.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

Human Genetics Courses
HGMP 7600 Survey of Human Genetics.
Credits: 3 semester hours.
Neuroscience Courses

NRSC 77600 Neuroscience Core Course.
Credits: 2 semester hours.
Pathology Courses

PATH 7600 Mechanisms and Models of Disease.
Credits: 1 semester hour.
Pharmacology Courses

PHCL 7350 Protein Chemistry.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

PHCL 7612 Drug Metabolism and Drug Interactions.
Credits: 2 semester hours.

PHSC 7330 Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.
Credits: 3 semester hours.

PHSC 7353 Pharmacogenetics.
Credits: 1 semester hour.