Times: Weekly, between July 28 and August 29, 2025

Style: Online (Remote Synchronous)

This camp will introduce students with no or limited previous programming experience to bioinformatics concepts and command line tools. For the time during which you take the class, you will be enrolled as a non-matriculated graduate student at Drexel University. The course is available to students currently enrolled as seniors in the undergraduate program, students in the graduate programs, or those who are working professionals. In this course, students will learn and experience:

• How to install bioinformatics tools and use them through the command line

• Exposure to different fields within bioinformatics

• Strategies for using available tools to answer different bioinformatics questions

• Basic plotting and data analysis with "R"

• Learn from selected experts about bioinformatics projects

The class is a remote synchronous class.

Faculty

Ceylan Tanes, PhD, is a biomedical engineer by training. She earened her PhD from Drexel University and is currently working as a bioinformatics scientist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Microbiome Center.

Tuition

Fees are approximately $1,400 for tuition. The workshop runs for 5 weeks, every Monday and Wednesday, from 5-6 pm.

The credit associated with the class can be applied to the Drexel Bioinformatics Graduate Certificate, or any MS degree offered by the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. This includes our new MS degree in Bioinformatics which combines modules in Bioinformatics, Data Science, Drug Discovery, Neurotechnology and Machine Learning/AI.

Current Drexel Students

Please contact Natalia Broz (njb33@drexel.edu) if you are a current Drexel student and want to enroll in this course.

Apply through Drexel Graduate Admissions (non-matriculation option)

1. Make a user account

2. Choose "Fall 2025-Summer 2026" option

3. Choose "Graduate Application"

4. Complete biographical information

5. Under "Academic Area of Interest," choose “The School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems” and then in the program field, choose “Non-Matriculated – School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems"

6. Choose "Summer' under "Term you Plan to Enroll"

7. Choose "Part-Time" under "Full-Time/Part-Time Status"

8. Follow the directions about entering current or previous institutions and emailing unofficial transcripts to enroll@drexel.edu and disregard the application essay and CV information (click "Continue").

9. Answer "Disclosures Questions"

10. Certify application and submit!

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Deadline

Please apply until July 24, 2025

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