Bioinformatics Track

2025-2026 Graduate Program New

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    Bioinformatics Track
    Bioinformatics Track
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    The proposed new Bioinformatics Track in the existing Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI) Master of Science program will emphasize the creation of storage, analytic, and interpretive methods to uptake the challenge of analyzing and interpreting the growing Big Data volume, heterogeneity, and complexity of genetic, molecular, and more broadly biological data and its translation in the clinic for preventive, predictive, and precision health and medicine. The program is expected to attract students who intend to pursue careers in academia, research centers, government, industry, and hospitals. This new track requires only one course to be added but will answer the specific growing need for professionals trained in the infusion of genetic and biological data in the clinic and the laboratory for precision health and medicine.

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    SUNY’s strategic plan highlights the system’s commitment to “a healthier New York”. According to the National Research Council, “Scientific research, information technology, medicine, and public attitudes are all undergoing unprecedented changes. Biology has acquired the capacity to systematically compile molecular data on a scale that was unimaginable 20 years ago. Diverse technological advances make it possible to gather, integrate, analyze, and disseminate health-related biological data in ways that could greatly advance both biomedical research and clinical care.” Synergistically combining molecular biology data, clinical data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs), and medical knowledge opens the path to bridging the gap between the molecular scale, the deep pathophysiology connecting molecules to bodily systems, and the human scale, through precision medicine. The emerging field of Personalized and Precision Medicine (PPM) moves beyond a “one size fits all” approach to treatment by considering individual differences in peoples’ genes, microbiomes, environments and lifestyles to provide customized preventive care, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for cancer and other diseases. Due to its enormous potential to target efficient therapies, as well as to identify pre-symptomatic individuals at risk of developing diseases, PPM has generated global policy interest in the past few years. The socio-economic benefits of PPM to reduce heart disease alone could generate $607 billion in improved health over 50 years; similar figures are expected for other diseases.

    Bioinformatics synergistically combines many academic areas such as biology, biochemistry, engineering, and computing. The current programs in Computer Science (BS and BA in CS, BS in SE), Information Science (BS in IS), Electrical and Computer Engineering (BS in ECE), Cognitive Science (BA in COG), and Human Computer Interaction (MA and PSM in HCI) within the Computer Science Department, address the need in their respective areas. The Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) MS is a step towards addressing this need for diversity in computing education while this program is significantly different from, yet synergistic with other department-wide computing initiatives. When the program was created with three tracks, it was envisioned that other tracks would follow (see Figure1) as the original program mostly covered the academic disciplines of health informatics and public health informatics, and as demand for specialized yet diversified health information technology and systems education grows in Upstate New York, in New York State, and globally as these programs and tracks have a global reach through online delivery. By providing this framework for potential growth, the Biomedical and Health Informatics program meets the vision and mission of the Computer Science Department of promoting interdisciplinary computing education for the community it serves.

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