COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE 117
Bioinformatics Minor The minor requires 22 credits. It consists of 19 credits of computer science, bioinformatics, and mathematics. Additionally, at least one upper-level biology/microbiology course is required to fulfill the minor. Bioinformatics Minor Requirements The required courses are as follows: 1 PC Database/CIS 173 3 Principles of Computing/CIS 190 3 Introduction to Programming and Lab/CIS 214, 215 3 Database Management Systems/CIS 255 3 Bioinformatics Tools/BINF 200 3 Bioinformatics Programming/BINF 300 3 Applied Statistics/MATH 213 or Probability and Statistics/MATH 312 The required upper-level biology/microbiology course is one of the following: 3 Genetics/BIOL 345 or Microbiology/BIOL 331 or Cellular Biochemistry/BIOL 373 or Cell Biology/BIOL 375 Total: 22 credits
COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCE (CIS) THERESA M. VITOLO, Ph.D., Chair FACULTY: Professors: Stephen T. Frezza, Sreela Sasi. Associate Professors: Mei-Huei Tang, Theresa M. Vitolo. Assistant Professors: Barry J. Brinkman, Yunkai Liu, Frank Xu. Instructor: Jeremy C. Cannell. The CIS Department maintains educational labs for teaching and project work, and servers using WINDOWS and LINUX operating systems. The general-purpose labs provide interactive environments for design and programming classes. The network lab offers a hands-on exposure to the hardware and software layers of networks. The advanced systems lab hosts state-of-the-art creation, capture, editing, and synthesis hardware and software for multimedia productions, database functions, and bioinformatics explorations. A project lab is maintained for faculty research, student work, and on-campus internship work. A wide-variety of programming environments and application software are available at Gannon University. Specifically within the Department and through its course offerings the following items are presented: C#.Net, C++, COBOL, and JAVA are core programming environments; Rational Rose™ and VISIO™ as modeling environments, and ORACLE™, SQL Server™, and Microsoft Access as database management systems. Programs: The Computer and Information Science department offers majors in: • Bioinformatics – described under Bioinformatics • Computer Science – described below • Information Systems – described under Information Systems • Software Engineering – described under Software Engineering A five-year cooperative program is available for these four majors. The student must meet the same requirements as the four-year programs, plus spend a minimum of three semesterequivalents in industry. See the Computer and Information Science Co-Op Curriculum section below.