# Bioinformatics

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**Parent**: https://english.spbu.ru/admission/programms/graduate

06.04.01 
*In Russian*

Level of education Master

Type of instruction Full-time

Duration 2 years

With the additional qualification ‘Software Developer’

Programme description

This master’s programme ‘Bioinformatics’ is a multi-discipline programme in bioinformatics that does not focus on a single area of life sciences.

The students are offered a wide range of project-oriented and research tasks that are tailored to the real needs of employers and/or research teams and include a wide range of problems in biomedicine, medical technology, ecology, evolution, agrobiology and many others.

The programme is aimed at easing the current shortage of specialists having both the basic knowledge in the field of life sciences and being able to apply the fundamentals of mathematics, statistics, programming and big data analysis methods. The programme is unique in that it provides a balanced teaching of both the mathematical, biological and computer-related subjects.

Graduates of the programme will be able to correctly interpret the data of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and their aggregates in a wide range of biological, medico-biological and other applications.

Upon completion of the programme, graduates are awarded the additional qualification ‘Software Developer’.

Main courses

- Introduction to Bioinformatics
- Linear Models, Analysis of Variance and Regression Using R
- Linux
- Modelling of Clinical Studies
- Biological Sequence Analysis
- Fundamentals of Higher Mathematics
- Basic Concepts of Cellular and Molecular Biology of Tumorigenesis
- Fundamentals of Programming
- Fundamentals of Statistics
- Fundamentals of Relativity Theory
- Population Genetics
- Presentation of Research Data and Grant Application Skills
- Principles of Developing New Drugs
- Philosophical Problems of Natural Science and Methodology of Biology

##### **Optional courses:**

- Adapting and Studying at the University (eLearning)
- Intellectual Property Law in the Digital Age (online course)
- University. Intro to Corporate Ethics (online course)
- Chinese for Beginners (online course)
- Chinese: five steps to success (online course)
- Hindi for Beginners (online course)

Our advantages

- The programme is designed to train experts in bioinformatics who: have professional skills in processing and interpreting biological and biomedical data; and are capable of setting complex tasks and solving them using bioinformatic approaches and methods
- The experts who are capable of analysing big data and transferring the results obtained to the practical fields of medicine, forensics, agriculture, ecology, environmental protection, oil and gas development and many others are currently much-in-demand. The need for such specialists will only increase in future. Graduates of the programme ‘Bioinformatics’ can work at: Russian universities; research institutes; biotechnological companies; medical institutions; forensic laboratories; environmental services; production associations; and leading laboratories in the world. Especially this is because the developing domestic IT industry is a good support to the competitiveness of the Russian bioinformatics market
- While obtaining the additional qualification of ‘Software Developer’, students acquire the competencies required for professional programming

Teaching staff

- Anton Nizhnikov, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Kirill Antonets, Recipient of the Russian President’s Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists

Career opportunities

**Work placements at**

- Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution 'All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology'
- Biocad

[This webpage may contain outdated information. The programme descriptions and admission requirements for the 2026/2027 academic year are currently being updated. For the latest information on 2026/2027 admission, please visit the Admissions Office website.](https://abiturient.spbu.ru/en/)

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