Informatics Doctoral Program
Building on a tradition of outstanding informatics education and research at Missouri, the doctoral program is a interdisciplinary doctoral program housed under the Graduate School and MU Provost. # core faculty, # departments # schools/colleges.
The Institute currently offers training in health informatics, bioinformatics, and geospatial informatics.
Each emphasis area stresses the skill sets and research appropriate to the subfield within the broad area of informatics.
A core curriculum provides all students with a foundation of knowledge and tools in computation, genomics, statistics and health systems, after which they complete further coursework in their chosen emphasis area. The integrated program assures broad exposure to the field and fosters new insights and innovate research concepts.
Required Core Courses
- DATA_SCI 7010: Introduction to Data Analytics
- INFOINST 7010: Computational Methods in Bioinformatics (only required of Bioinformatics emphasis area students) OR INFOINST 8005: Applications of Bioinformatics Tools for Biological Research
- DATA_SCI 8130 Data Science for Healthcare OR HMI 7430: Introduction to Health Informatics (only required of Health Informatics emphasis area students)
- DATA_SCI 8612: Spatial and Geostatistical Analysis (only required of Geospatial Informatics concentration area students)
Required Method Courses
9 credits minimum
All students are required to have the following courses plus an additional 3 credit hours of method courses.
- STAT 7510: Applied Statistical Models I OR DATA_SCI 7020: Statistical and Mathematical Foundations for Data Analytics
- INFOINST 8810: Research Methods in Informatics
Professional Development Activities
Lab Rotations, Informatics Seminar and Other Professional Development Activities
Professional Development: All MUII students are required to participate in the Journal Club and teaching activities, including instruction or curriculum development.
- INFOINST 8087: Seminar in Informatics
- INFOINST 8088: Lab Rotation in Informatics
Area Courses
All students require at least 15 credits in the following courses
- AN_SCI 8433: Functional Genomics of Mammals
- AN_SCI 8633: Molecular and Network Evolution
- BIO_EN 7560: Observing the Earth from Space
- CMP_SC 7380: Database Management Systems I
- CMP_SC 7740: Natural Language Processing
- CMP_SC 8370: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- CMP_SC 8630: Data Visualization
- CMP_SC 8725: Supervised Learning
- CMP_SC 8735: Unsupervised Learning
- DATA_SCI 7030: Database and Analytics
- DATA_SCI 7040: Big Data Visualization
- DATA_SCI 8110: Genomic Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8120: Multi-Omics Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8130: Data Science for Health Care
- DATA_SCI 8140: Advanced Methods in Health Data Science
- DATA_SCI 8150: Precision Medicine Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8160: Population Health Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8230: Streaming Social Media Data Management & Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8410: Data Mining and Information Retrieval
- DATA_SCI 8420: Cloud Computing for Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8430: Parallel Computing for Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8520: Geospatial Data Engineering
- DATA_SCI 8530: Remote Sensing Data Analytics
- DATA_SCI 8310: Advanced Visualization I
- DATA_SCI 8320: Advanced Visualization II
- ECE 7270: Computer Organization
- ECE 7580: Computational Neuroscience
- ECE 8320: Nonlinear Systems
- ECE 8570: Theoretical Neuroscience I
- ECE 8580: Theoretical Neuroscience II
- GEOG 7620: Biogeography
- GEOG 7710: Spatial Analysis in Geography
- GEOG 7740: Location Analysis and Site Selection
- GEOG 7810: Landscape Ecology and GIS Analysis I
- GEOG 7815: Landscape Ecology and GIS Analysis II
- GEOG 7840: Geographic Information Systems I
- GEOG 7860: Advanced Remote Sensing
- GEOG 7940: Geographical Information Systems II
- GEOG 8840: Seminar in Applied Remote Sensing
- GEOG 8902: Topics in Geography- Biological/Physical/Mathematical
- HMI 7410: Design of Health and Human Services Systems
- HMI 8435: Information Security, Evaluation, and Policy
- HMI 8437: Data Warehousing and Data/Text Mining for Health Care
- HMI 8441: Controlled Terminology Theory and Application
- HMI 8443: Enterprise Information Architecture
- HMI 8460: Administration of Health Care Organizations
- HMI 8461: Human Resources Management
- HMI 8478: Knowledge Management in Health Care
- HMI 8524: Health Economics
- HMI 8565: Health Care Ethics
- HMI 8571: Decision Support Systems for Healthcare
- HMI 8573: Decision Making for Health Care Organizations
- HMI 8610: Consumer Health Informatics
- IMSE 8810: Human Factors: Theories, Methods and Tools
- INFOINST 8005: Applications of Bioinformatics Tools in Biological Research
- INFOINST 8150: Integrative Methods in Bioinformatics
- INFOINST 8190: Computational Systems Biology
- INFOINST 8210: Structural Bioinformatics of Proteins, Complexes, and Systems
- INFOINST 8310: Computational Genomics
- INFOINST 8870: Knowledge Representation in Biology and Medicine
- ISLT 9410: Doctoral seminar
- NURS 9460: Health Behavior Change Research
- PTH_AS 7450: Precision Medicine Informatics