Editable-Copy-of-US-programs-in-Bioinformatics-updated-18May2015

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4	Updated by?	Institution	Standard structure (see 2nd definition sheet for codes)	Structure of the Program (Dept., Program, Center, Institute)	Comment	Loc- ation (State)	Location (City)	What the Bioinformatics Program is called?	# students	# faculty	URL	URL #2	5/18/2015

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6		Yale	P+i	PhD granting program in Comp. Bio. with an associated Systems Biol. Inst.	Had to put this in the first row! ;)	CT	New Haven	Computational Biology & Bioinformatics	7	~20	http://cbb.yale.edu		*
7		Baylor University	p	Sub-specialization in CS Dept.				Bioinformatics	6	2	http://www.ecs.baylor.edu/bioinformatics/
8	MG	Baylor College of Medicine	P	PhD program		TX	Houston	Structural and Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics. Broad Multi. institutional PhD granting program.	7	70	http://www.bcm.edu/scbmb
9	@stevepiccolo	Brigham Young University		BS program, MS and PhD program (informally)		UT		Bioinformatics (Biology Department)	120+	4	http://bioinformatics.byu.edu/
10	@Mengting	Brown University	C		PhD in the Center involves getting a degree in one of the participating depts (eg CS or Mol. Bio.)	RI		Center for Computational Molecular Biology (CCMB)			http://www.brown.edu/research/projects/computational-molecular-biology/
11		Boston U		Interdisciplinary program		MA		Bioinformatics	?	47	http://www.bu.edu/bioinformatics/
12		Caltech	p	Program focusing on Neuroscience & Computation	program in computational neural systems	CA		Computational Neural Systems	53	87	http://cns.caltech.edu
13		CMU		PhD program	Joint program with U of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon. Numbers incl. Pitt. Appears to be a subspecialization under CMU CS ("Lane Center").	PA		Computational Biology	54	51	http://www.compbio.cmu.edu		*
14		Columbia	C+D+d+i	C2B2 Center assoc. with Systems Biology Dept. + Dept. of Biomed. Informatics. Also, Data Sciences Inst.		NY	NYC	C2B2 Center (with Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies) + Dept. Biomed. Informatics	28	15	http://www.c2b2.columbia.edu/		*
15	@Mengting	Cornell	D	Field with PhD program + Biostat & compbio dept.		NY	Ithaca	Computational Biology	25	36	http://www.cb.cornell.edu/		*
16		Cornell	P+I	Institute for Computational Biomedicine (ICB) with associated Tri. Institutional PhD Program in Bioinformatics		NY	NYC	Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (CBM)			http://icb.med.cornell.edu/education		*
17	@armish	Cornell - Weill Cornell - Memorial Sloan Kettering		1 year of classes at Ithaca, Cornell University then students decide to stay in either NYC or Ithaca.	Pretty flexible program allowing students from different backgrounds to catch up with the field. NYC institutes provide opportunities for research in translational science	NY	NYC	Computational Biology and Medicine (CBM)	39	~45	http://www.triiprograms.org/cbm/index.html
18		CSHL		Center with possible concentation in PhD program		NY		Simons Center for Quantitative Biology	?	9	http://www.cshl.edu/research/quantitative-biology
19	@Mengting	Dartmouth College(in New Hampshire)	C			NH		BioInformatics Service Center
20		Duke		PhD Program + Genome Center with Fac. Lines		NC		CBB	40	85	http://www.genome.duke.edu/CBB/
21		""		Dept.	Appears to be an outgrowth of the biostat. dept.			Biostat. & Bioinformatics			http://biostat.duke.edu
22	@meiotic_Drive	Emory University		Interdisciplinary program	Bioinformatics & Comparative Genomics is an area of training	GA		Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology	47	44	http://www.biomed.emory.edu/PROGRAM_SITES/GMB/index.html
23	@meiotic_Drive	""		Interdisciplinary program	Bioinformatics and Biostatistics is one of the Areas of Inquiry for the program			Graduate Program in Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution	29	40	http://www.biomed.emory.edu/PROGRAM_SITES/PBEE/index.html
24		Florida International		Dept.		FL		Biomedical Mathematics	53	38	http://www.math.fsu.edu/~quine/biomed.math
25		George Mason		PhD Program		VA		Bioinformatics Computational Biology	?	22	http://binf.gmu.edu/phd.html
26		Georgia Tech		PhD program				Bioinformatics	?	20	http://www.biology.gatech.edu/graduate-programs/bioinformatics/new/bioinformatics_phd.php
27	@mgymrek, @mengting	Harvard	P+D+d+C+c	Systems biology Center in FAS. Many options at med. School. In particular, new Dept. in Biomedical Informatics, professors of comp. bio. in Biostat. Dept., inter-departmental program in bioinformatics	Recently moved from the Harvard-MIT BIG program: https://hst.mit.edu/academics/summer-institute/bioinformatics. Also: http://cccb.dfci.harvard.edu/home, https://cbmi.med.harvard.edu	MA		Bioinformatics & Integrated Genomics, Computational Biology	14	15	http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dms/BIG	http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostatistics	*
28	@rtraborn	Indiana University		School of Informatics and Computing (SOIC); PhD Program in Informatics	Interdiscipinary- students can join faculty that are co-affiliated with the program in the Department of Biology			Bioinformatics track within PhD in Informatics	?	~8
29		Iowa State University	P	PhD program	Assoc. institute (funding source, http://www.bioinformatics.iastate.edu) & undergrad. program (http://bcbio.las.iastate.edu)	IA	Ames	Bioinformatics & Comp. Biol.	~8/year	>50	http://www.bcb.iastate.edu/
30	@Mengting	JHU	C			MD		Center for Computational Biology	?	36	http://advanced.jhu.edu/academic/biotechnology/ms-in-bioinformatics/
31		""	P	PhD, Computational Biology and Medicine				Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering
32		""	P	PhD, computational biology				Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health
33		""	P	PhD, Quantitative and computational biology are an integral part of the CMDB training program				Department of Biology, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
34		""	P	PhD, Computational Biology				Department of Biomedical Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
35	MG, CB	MIT	p	PhDs within a larger program (Computational & Systems Biology), which, in turn, is part of larger CSBi initiative		MA		Computational and Systems Biology	45	56	http://csbi.mit.edu/education/phd.html
36		Oregon Health & Science U		Track in Public Health Dept.				Bioimedical Informatics/CBB Track (Division in Dept of Med Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology-DMICE)	7	13	http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/schools/school-of-medicine/departments/clinical-departments/dmice/educational-programs/dmice-programs/computational-biology.cfm
37		Princeton	p+i	PhD program + genomics inst. with faculty lines		NJ	Princeton	QCB Program + Lewis-Sigler Inst.	30	10	http://www.princeton.edu/qcbgrad		*
38		Rice	P	Subspecialization in Biochem. Dept.				Bioinformatics & Computational Biology	59	16	http://biochem.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=169
39		Stanford	D	New Dept. with faculty lines & a dedicated space. Builds on existing PhD program in Biomedical Informatics that will continue and evolve. + Center with a separate more comp. bio. oriented group in the CS dept.	translational and clinical focused	CA		Biomedical Informatics = BMI	38	66	http://bmi.stanford.edu/
40		Texas A&M		two-year training program				Training Program in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Nutrition and Cancer		15	http://www.stat.tamu.edu/train/
41		U Chicago		Under CS Dept.	Computational Mathematics Track	IL		Subspecialization under CS + Genomics & Sys. Bio. Inst. + Computation Inst.	41	22	http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/info/phd_prog/phd_req_comp_math
42		University of Georgia	I	Institute	Student can train and research across multiple Colleges. MS and Ph.D. degrees offered	GA	Athens	Institute of Bioinformatics	37	37	http://iob.iga.edu
43	@Mengting	""	C					Center for Research Informatics, Bioinformatics Core
44	@ffrancis12	U of Delaware		PhD, MS, Certificate, PSM; Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (CBCB)				Bioinformatics and Systems Biology	~27		http://bioinformatics.udel.edu/Education
45	@ongenetics	U of Maryland	P	A concentration area within the Biological Sciences (BISI) interdepartmental PhD program.	CBBG is affiliated with the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (see cbcb.umd.edu), which also has students in related programs (Computer Science, Applied Math).	MD	College Park	Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics	18	33	http://www.bisi.umd.edu/cbbg/	http://cbcb.umd.edu/
46		U of Mich	D+P	PhD program within a Dept.		MI	Ann Arbor	Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics	46	24	http://www.ccmb.med.umich.edu/
47	@rtraborn	U of Iowa		Certificate program across three university-wide colleges	PhD students across multiple colleges (College of Medicine, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and College of Engineering) can participate if they work with affiliated faculty members			Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (certificate program)	49	38	http://informatics.grad.uiowa.edu/bioinformatics
48	@stevepiccolo	U of Nebraska		BS, MS, PhD (latter in Biomedical Informatics)			Omaha	Bioinformatics	?	3	http://bioinformatics.ist.unomaha.edu/
49	@UNCC_BIGScience	UNC Charlotte		PhD, PSM, Certificates, Summer Institute, & UG Minor				Bioinformatics and Genomics Department	125	17	http://bioinformatics.uncc.edu
50		U of Texas (HSC)		PhD Program			Houston (HSC)	Bioinformatics			http://www.uthouston.edu/gsbs/research-interests/bioinformatics/
51		U of Texas (MD Anderson)	D+P	Dept.	PhD program related to Dept of Biostatistics & Dept of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Quantitative Sciences		Houston (MD Anderson)	Bioinformatics and Computational Biology		17	http://www.mdanderson.org/education-and-research/education-and-training/schools-and-programs/research-training/programs-and-courses/program-in-biomathematics-and-biostatistics/index.html
52		U of Texas (Austin)		Center	PhD program in each dept, supervised by participating faculty from Biological Sciences, BME, CS/ECE, Chemistry/Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering,Mathematics		Austin	Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBB)	？	53	http://ccbb.biosci.utexas.edu/
53	MG	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	P+P+C	PhD program + Center with faculty lines & small amount of space. Also, designated emphasis graduate program (minor for PhD students).	Ph.D. program in computational biology, hosted by Center for Computational Biology (which has faculty lines as well as faculty in 12 programs). In addition there is a Designated Emphasis, which is like a "minor" for a Ph.D.; it includes coursework, qualifying exam, seminars & retreats, and is listed on the diploma	CA	Berkeley	Computational Biology	22	30	http://qb3.berkeley.edu/ccb/		*
54		UCLA	P	PhD program		CA	LA	UCLA Bioinformatics Program	16	20	http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/
55		UCSD	P+D	PhD program		CA	SD	Bioinformatics and Systems Biology	69	54	http://bioinformatics.ucsd.edu/
56	JAS, MG	UCSF	P+i+i	PhD program for Bioinformatics within a larger structure, connected to biophysics and complex systems. Associated institutes.	Bioinformatics (BI) is a curriculm pathway within the Biological and Medical Informatics Graduate Program at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Also, UCSF seems to the QB3 thing which is like a quantitative biology institute. Finally, there's a new UCSF Institute of Computational Health Sciences.	CA	SF	Integrative Program in Quantitative Biology	35	35	http://bioinformatics.ucsf.edu/		*
57		U Penn	P	Grad. group under auspices of Penn biomed. sciences program. Not a separate PhD program.		PA		Genomics and Computational Biology	35	62	http://www.med.upenn.edu/gcb
58	@genetisaur	UW	P	Dept. with PhD program in genomics	MCB dept allows a lot more flexibility than GS: http://depts.washington.edu/mcb/	WA		Dept. of Genome Sciences	60	31	http://cmb.washington.edu/
59	@anthonygitter	U Wisconsin	P+d	Department, PhD program, and training program	Biomedical Data Science PhD. Relevant PhDs also granted through CS or Statistics, not the BMI department or CIBM program.	WI	Madison	Dept. Biostatistics and Medical Informatics. Biomedical Data Science PhD. Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine training program.			https://biostat.wisc.edu/content/education	http://qbi.wisc.edu/index.htm
60	M,@_ramrs	NYU	`	Interdepartmental PhD program (including FAS, med. school & MSSM). Also, research foci in CS, Bio, and Chem & Bio Eng. Later results in MS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/Interdisciplinary Studies in Polytechnic School of Engineering	Interdisciplinary, so few specialized faculty. Part time faculty and inter-departmental courses are aplenty. Multiple tracks based on under-grad background			Bioinformatics	~15	~5	http://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/programs/bioinformatics-ms, http://cob.as.nyu.edu/page/home
61	@davemessina	Washington University in Saint Louis		PhD program within the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences	One of the first CompBio programs (first offered in 1999 I believe). Disclaimer: I was a student in an proto-version of this program.	MO		Computational and Systems Biology	27	57	http://dbbs.wustl.edu/divprograms/compbio/Pages/Course-Requirements.aspx
62	@michaelhoffman	University of Toronto		Collaborative Program (PhD students apply to one of several degree programs, then join this additional program)	Also bioinformatics streams in Computer Science and Medical Biophysics that do not require participation in this program	Canada		Collaborative Graduate Program in Genome Biology and Bioinformatics	21	68	http://www.gbb.utoronto.ca/
63	@morgantaschuk	University of Calgary		Undergraduate program in Faculty of Medicine	Highly interdisciplinary program focusing on discovery based learning	Canada		Bachelor of Health Science: Bioinformatics stream	~10/year		http://medicine.ucalgary.ca/bhsc/program/bioinformatics
64	@xjzhou	University of Southern California	P	An academic unit in the Biology department. Multiple faculty members have joint appointments in CS and Math.	The USC CBB program celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012			Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	50	20	http://dornsife.usc.edu/cbb
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