生物信息学硕士是融合生物科学和计算机技术的独特硕士学位，是生物学，化学，数学和统计学，计算和信息学以及工程学交叉学科的跨学科课程。预计进入该计划的学生将完成生命科学或定量学科的本科专业。该学位需要额外的培训，并在生命科学和科学程序设计方面表现出出色的能力。MS程序旨在为学生提供开发，评估和部署生物信息学和计算生物学应用程序的技能和知识。该计划旨在使学生为在生物技术领域的就业做好准备，在过去十年中，对具有定量和计算技能的知识渊博的生命科学家的需求激增。
Data is driving advances in all areas of biology, agriculture, and biotechnology, as well as applications like personalized medicine. In the two-year Master of Science in Bioinformatics, you will learn to model, analyze, and manage massive amounts of biological data. Also known as computational biology, bioinformatics is a fast-growing field. Our interdisciplinary program emphasizes computation and informatics but also integrates knowledge from biology, statistics, and related areas. About half of our graduates are hired by companies or by research hospitals such as the Mayo Clinic and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The other half enter Ph.D. programs. One program you can consider: IU's Ph.D. in Informatics, which offers a track in bioinformatics.