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Why should you study bioinformatics? 
- Bioinformatics is an interesting, and rapidly advancing field with many diverse challenges. For instance, you can become an expert in
- Finding new genes and drug targets
- Personalized treatment of cancer or other disease
- Analysis of ancient DNA
- Heuristic sampling methods
- Predicting protein structure or conformation
- There is a rapidly increasing need for bioinformatics expertise in both academia and industry
- There are great possibilities for continuing as a PhD student after the master program
Why should you study bioinformatics at the University of Copenhagen?
- Experience and coverage: Unlike many other bioinformatics programs, each teacher is an expert in a separate sub-field in bioinformatics – ranging from e.g. sequence analysis to structure prediction to data mining and expression analysis. The teachers have written textbooks about the field in which they are teaching – for instance Biological Sequence Analysis. Meet the teachers here.
- Stability and experience: The program has been running for 10 years, with continuous evaluations and improvements along the way.
- Scientific quality: The teachers are all well-known scientists with several papers in top scientific journals like Science and Nature.
- Small-scale teaching and being part of a bioinformatics community. The bioinformatics program only accepts 15-20 students a year, which means that students can easily get to know and interact with the scientists. The master program students are recognized as a part of the bioinformatics centre and join both scientific and recreational activities such as seminars and kick-offs.
- University of Copenhagen is consistently ranked one of the best universities in Europe. Press here for ranking info.
