Some courses may be listed at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. You should register for the graduate level course (5000 and above). If it is cross-listed between departments, then it is up to you to decide which one to register for based on your curriculum requirements (this page does not show cross-listings).
- Courses for past, present and future terms can be viewed in the Yale Course Search.
- Any course that is added to the Primary Worksheet in that system will appear in Canvas and in SIS (Student Information System), which is where official registration is submitted for approval by the DGS.
- If you need any special forms such as extended registration or a course waiver or schedule change, they can usually be found under the University Registrar’s Office.
Students may be able to waive some course requirements based on graduate coursework completed at other universities where they have been enrolled as a graduate student. Courses must be equivalent to Yale graduate courses, and the Graduate School usually sets a maximum limit of three courses that can waived.
CBB students have also participated in training programs such as Yale’s Integrated Graduate Program in Physical Engineering Biology (PEB) and BBS-run programs such as the Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP) and the Yale Cancer Biology Training Program (CBTP). These programs include additional coursework that may or may not count towards CBB requirements.
All Ph.D. students who have finished their course requirements should register for QUAL 9999. Those who have finished their qualifying exam register for DISR 9999 instead.
Please note that some course titles might change over time e.g. CB&B 7400 was formerly called Clinical and Translational Informatics. Also keep in mind that not all courses (including the ones listed below) are offered every semester or year, so be sure to check the course catalog prior to registration. The “a” after a course number represents a fall course and the “b” represents a spring course.
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Courses in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
CBB students are required to take the following CBB core courses: CB&B 7400 and CB&B 7520. In addition, Ph.D. students also take the year-long sequence of lab rotations (7110, 7120, 7130). These courses are highlighted in bold below, along with a selection of other CBB courses:
- CB&B 5230b: Biological Physics (every other year)
- CB&B 5500a: Introduction to Neuroinformatics
- CB&B 5550a: Unsupervised Learning for Big Data
- CB&B 5620b: Modeling Biological Systems II
- CB&B 5670b: Topics in Deep Learning: Methods and Biomedical Applications (every other year)
- CB&B 5700b: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Biomedical Data Science
- CB&B 5710a: Data Science Grant-Writing Practicum
- CB&B 5720b: Selected Topics in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
- CB&B 5730b: AI-AI: Assessing and Improving AI4Health Tools for Clinical Practice
- CB&B 5740b: Biomedical Natural Language Processing: Methods and Applications
- CB&B 5750a: Bioinformatics Applications in Biomedicine
- CB&B 5760b: Foundations of Real World Data Science: Electronic Health Records
- CB&B 5800a: Bioinformatics Algorithms in Genomics
- CB&B 6340a: Computational Methods in Informatics
- CB&B 6380a: Clinical Database Management Systems and Ontologies
- CB&B 6450b: Statistical Methods in Computational Biology
- CB&B 6470b: Statistical Methods in Human Genetics
- CB&B 6663b: Deep Learning Theory and Applications
- CB&B 7110a: 1st Lab Rotation
- CB&B 7120b: 2nd Lab Rotation
- CB&B 7130b: 3rd Lab Rotation
- CB&B 7400a: Introduction to Health Informatics
- CB&B 7450b: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning and Data Mining
- CB&B 7500b: Core Topics in Biomedical Informatics
- CB&B 7520b: Biomedical Data Science: Mining and Modeling
Courses in Biological Sciences
Courses are available in many biology-related departments, including Cell Biology (CBIO), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (E&EB), Engineering and Applied Science (ENAS), Genetics (GENE), Immunology (IBIO), Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B), Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB), Pathology (PATH) and Physiology (PHYS).
A selection of courses that CBB students have taken in the past include:
- CBIO 6020a: Molecular Cell Biology
- E&EB 5225b: Evolutionary Biology
- ENAS 5170b: Methods and Logic in Interdisciplinary Research [for students in PEB]
- ENAS 5710b: Integrated Workshop [for students in PEB]
- GENE 6250a: Basic Concepts of Genetics Analysis
- GENE 7770b: Mechanisms of Development
- IBIO 5300a: Biology of the Immune System
- MB&B 6000a: Principles of Biochemistry I
- MB&B 6020a: Molecular Cell Biology
- MB&B 7430b: Advanced Eukaryotic Molecular Biology
- MCDB 5500a: Physiological Systems [for students in MRSP]
- MCDB 5700b: Biotechnology
- PATH 5650b: Biology of Cancer [for students in CBTP]
- PATH 5690a: Molecular Mechanisms of Disease [for students in MRSP]
Courses in Informatics
Computer Science Courses
Courses are available in Computer Science and other departments. A selection of courses that CBB students have taken include the following:
- CPSC 5240b: Parallel Programming Techniques
- CPSC 5370a: Database Systems
- CPSC 5700b: Artificial Intelligence
Statistics Courses
Many CBB students have taken the following statistics courses:
- GENE 6450b: Statistical Methods in Human Genetics
- S&DS 5380a: Probability and Statistics
Other courses that CBB students have taken include the following:
- S&DS 5300ab: Data Exploration and Analysis
- S&DS 5410a: Probability Theory
- S&DS 5420b: Theory of Statistics
- S&DS 5510b: Stochastic Processes
- S&DS 6100a: Statistical Inference
- S&DS 6120a: Linear Models
- S&DS 6610b: Data Analysis
- S&DS 6650ab: Intermediate Machine Learning
Research Ethics Courses
These half-semester courses are required by the NSF and must be taken by first-year and by fourth-year Ph.D. students. The first-year course is typically shared with several other BBS tracks and meets once a week for 10 sessions. The fourth-year course will meet once as a large group and four times as a program.
- CB&B 601b: Responsible Conduct of Research
- CB&B 5030b: RCR Refresher for Senior BBS Students