生物信息学领域涉及广泛的研究工作，旨在通过开发和实施存储库和工具以及对生物信息进行计算和统计分析来深入了解生物过程。集成了计算，信息学，统计和数学资源与技术，以组织，分析和可视化组织各个层面的生物数据，从分子和表型到种群和生态系统。博士的生物信息学领域 信息学专业致力于促进学生在生物信息学理论和应用方面的学术，研究和智力发展，这对于我们理解生物世界（包括人类，模型和农业物种以及具有经济或医学重要性的微生物）的生物学模式和过程具有重要意义。该领域将课程内容纳入与生物信息学相关的多个学科，包括“omicÃ
The field of bioinformatics encompasses a wide range of research efforts that aim at gaining insights into biological processes through the development and implementation of repositories and tools, and the computational and statistical analysis of biological information. Computational, informatics, statistical, and mathematical resources and technologies are integrated to organize, analyze, and visualize biological data at multiple levels of organization, from molecules and phenotypes to populations and ecosystems. The Bioinformatics Area of the Ph.D. in Informatics fosters the academic, research, and intellectual development of students on bioinformatics theory and applications important for our understanding biological patterns and processes in the living world, including human, model and agricultural species, and microbes of economic or medical importance. This Area incorporates coursework in multiple disciplines related to bioinformatics including ‘omic' themes (i.e. genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, comparative omics), phylogenetics, molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics, statistical genetics, statistical genomics, systems and network biology, quantitative genetics, structural biology, biotext mining, and e-science.