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Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

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GPA and percentages are weighted by recorded letter grades. UW comparisons use the same terms. Cross-listed courses count once within this department and once across UW; department totals should not be added together. Grade counts are not unique students. Offering counts reflect captured records, not a complete historical schedule.

Fall 2026

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17 courses

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BIOCHEM/BME/BMI/CBE/COMPSCI/GENETICS 915

Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine

1 credits

A seminar for CIBM program trainees discussing current research in computation and informatics in biology and medicine.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Mark Craven Colin Dewey

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Spring 2026

BMI 699

Independent Study

1–8 credits

BMI 699 is an independent study course allowing students to pursue directed study beyond the standard curriculum.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Richard Chappell Mark Craven+22 more

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Spring 2022 · limited sample

BMI 800

Becoming a Biomedical Data Scientist

1 credits

BECOMING A BIOMEDICAL DATA SCIENTIST teaches interdisciplinary research methods and career planning at the biomedical and data science interface.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Mark Craven Sushmita Roy

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2024–Fall 2025 · limited sample

BMI 881

Biomedical Data Science Scholarly Literature 1

2 credits

BMI 881 teaches critical evaluation of scholarly literature through reading and discussing influential biomedical journal articles.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Karl Broman

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample

BMI 883

Biomedical Data Science Professional Skills 1

1 credits

BMI 883 teaches essential professional skills for research careers, including writing, funding, presenting, and career planning.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Karl Broman

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2023–Fall 2025 · limited sample

BMI 884

Biomedical Data Science Professional Skills 2

1 credits

BMI 884 teaches essential research career skills such as paper writing, securing funding, and career planning.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Karl Broman

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample

BMI 899

Pre-dissertator Research

1–12 credits

BMI 899 is a pre-dissertator research course for graduate students preparing for dissertation work.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Richard Chappell Mark Craven+28 more

historical GPA · grades

Spring 2022–Spring 2026 · limited sample

BMI 990

Dissertator Research

1–3 credits

BMI 990 is a research course for graduate students conducting dissertation work.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Richard Chappell Mark Craven+16 more

No recorded grade history

BMI/COMPSCI 576

Introduction to Bioinformatics

3 credits

Introduction to bioinformatics focusing on algorithms for molecular biology problems.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Historical reviews of Colin Dewey: The course features weekly Jupyter notebooks and homework that require significant time investment. Reviews indicate the work is hard but prepares students well for exams, with many assignments providing substantial code scaffolding.

Daifeng Wang

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2025

BMI/COMPSCI 771

Learning Based Methods for Computer Vision

3 credits

Covers deep learning for computer vision tasks like image classification, object detection, and medical image analysis.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Yin Li

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2025

BMI/COMPSCI 775

Computational Network Biology

3 credits

Computational Network Biology introduces networks as representations for biological and biomedical systems, covering graph-theoretic theory and algorithmic applications.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Sushmita Roy Anthony Gitter

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample

BMI/MEDICINE 918

Health Informatics for Medical Students Elective

2 credits

Overview of health informatics concepts and technology application in health care delivery for biomedical data.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

No recorded grade history

BMI/POPHLTH 551

Introduction to Biostatistics for Population Health

4 credits

Introduction to biostatistics for population health researchers covering descriptive statistics, probability, inference, and sample size calculations.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Tianyuan Lu

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Fall 2025 · limited sample

BMI/POPHLTH 661

Causal Inference, Surveys and Missing Data for Population Health

3 credits

Covers modern statistical methods for incomplete data, including complex survey design, missing data analysis, and causal inference.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Amy Cochran

No recorded grade history

BMI/STAT 541

Introduction to Biostatistics

3 credits

Introduction to biostatistics for biomedical researchers, covering descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression, and survival analysis with biomedical applications.

Offering recorded · Fall 2026

Historical reviews of Ismor Fischer, Mary Lindstrom: Reviewers describe the course as easy, with take-home or open-note exams. Prior intro stats knowledge makes the material manageable.