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Curriculum Requirements 
Each student, upon joining the program, will be assigned a faculty member who will provide advice and guidance in selecting coursework.

Students must complete at least 9 credits of coursework to meet the requirements for graduation with a Ph.D.

Required Courses (6 credits) - Course Descriptions
Except for CS 5343, Algorithm Analysis and Data Structures, which is offered by the Department of Computer Science at UT Dallas, all of the following are CBT courses offered by the Molecular Biophysics program.

MB  5155-01    Mathematical Methods   1.5 credits
MB  5105-01    Mathematical Biophysics: Energetics  1.5 credits
UTD CS 5343   Algorithm Analysis and Data Structures  3.0 credits

Elective Courses (3 credits) - Course Descriptions
Any of the 1.5 credit courses offered by the Molecular Biophysics Program (below) or any of the approved 3 credit electives in Computer Science or Mathematical Sciences offered at UT Dallas.

MB 5145-01  Computational Approaches in Protein Science  1.5 credits
MB 5125-01  Computational Modeling of Signaling Systems  1.5 credits
MB 5096-01  Bioinformatics and DNA Microarray Data Analysis  1.5 credits


Other Activities
CBT students should attend regular meetings of the Computational Biology Discussion Group and the Computational Biology Journal Club which generally meet on Mondays at noon. Venue normally alternates between UT Southwestern and UT Dallas.

 

Course substitutions 
Students who have completed, with a minimum grade of B, an undergraduate or graduate course equivalent to any of the required courses may, with the approval of the faculty advisor and MB Program Chair, substitute those for any of the courses listed among the approved electives. The student must provide a syllabus of the course deemed to be equivalent and a transcript showing the grade earned in that course.
 
Remediation 
Students who have not met the prerequisites for UT Dallas CS 5343, Algorithm Analysis and Data Structures, or other electives on the approved list may take undergraduate courses at UT Dallas to meet these requirements. Tuition expenses will, in most cases, be covered by tuition fees already provided to DBS students. Undergraduate courses cannot be used to fulfill advanced course requirements.

 


Algorithm Analysis and Data Structures (UTD CS 5343, 3 credits)
Formal specifications and representation of lists, arrays, trees, graphs, multilinked structures, strings and recursive pattern structures. Analysis of associated algorithms. Sorting and searching, file structures. Relational data models.

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