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Wageningen University and Research Centre, MSc, Bioinformatics

Wageningen University and Research Centre
 Netherlands

 

Study mode Start date Duration Fee international Fee study period Year of study
Study modeFull-time Start date Jan, Sep Durationyears: 2 Fee international€17600 Fee study periodAcademic year Year of study2017
The MSc programme in Bioinformatics at Wageningen University provides students having a BSc in Life Sciences with skills necessary to manipulate these large biological datasets, the ability to analyze these data and the ability to develop new bioinformatics tools. Supplementary advanced courses At Wageningen the Bioinformatics programme focuses on the practical application of Bioinformatics. Depending on previous BSc degree, candidates are requested to follow supplementary advanced courses in biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, or genetics. The curriculum commences with basic training in database management, computer programming and training in elementary bioinformatics tools aimed at using existing software to collect, analyze and interpret DNA and protein sequence information and moves on to more open challenges. Advanced bioinformatics courses deal with structural and functional genomics, transcriptomics and DNA array technology data, proteomics and metabolomics data and with the emerging field of systems biology.

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Wageningen Campus is centrally located in the Netherlands with excellent road connections with Amsterdam, Rotterdam and the Hague (just over an hour from Amsterdam and Schiphol), Utrecht (40 minutes), Arnhem (20 minutes) and Nijmegen (just over half an hour). Besides Schiphol, the campus is also within one hour from the international airports of Eindhoven and Düsseldorf Weeze.


The town of Wageningen, where the university is based, is a historic town on the banks of the Rhine. Each year in May the town holds a festival which draws in thousands of visitors, celebrating the town’s significance as the site of the liberation of the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War.