生物系和计算科学与信息系统系提供了两个生物信息学计划：生物信息学理学学士学位和生物信息学文凭。这两个程序都有合作教育选项。Langara的为期两年的生物信息学计划为学生提供了计算机科学和生物学方面的深厚知识，并为学生提供了在攻读大学学位时成功完成高级课程所需的基本生物信息学技能。生物信息学是一门跨学科科学，致力于将计算机科学和信息技术应用于生物信息，以解决复杂的生物问题。生物信息，特别是以DNA或蛋白质序列数据的形式，非常适合数字化，生物数据库中的信息正以指数级的速度增长。
Collecting large amounts of biological data is becoming easier and more affordable and as a result biology has become a data science. Examples of biological data include genetic sequences, genomes, epigenomes, proteomes, metabalomes and microbiomes. These large data sets require specialized and powerful computational and statistical tools for analysis. Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary science that applies computational and statistical methods to biological information in order to make new discoveries and to solve complex biological problems.<br><br>The discovery of thousands of disease-causing genes since the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 exemplifies the power of early bioinformatics methods. Bioinformatics tools are now routinely used to study the underlying cause of disease and to find more effective treatments as well as to study biological patterns and develop biological and chemical models.