This programme will teach you how to manage and manipulate large datasets to gain new insights in biological sciences. The biological sciences have become increasingly data driven, as new analytical techniques deliver ever more data about genes, proteins, metabolites and the interactions between them. Bioinformatics is the discipline tasked with turning all this data into useful information and new biological knowledge. With applications spanning the width of life science disciplines there is now high demand for trained bioinformaticians. Without assuming any prior informatics experience, you will be taught the very latest tools and techniques in bioinformatics and apply them in a cutting edge research project. You will also collaborate with peers to build new bioinformatics solutions to real-world problems as part of an innovative group project. This programme is delivered by academics who are actively engaged in developing bioinformatics tools and applying them in areas such as genome sequencing, proteomics, evolution, ecology, psychology, cancer, diabetes and other diseases.We have an extensive network of academic and industrial collaborators around the UK and in Europe, who contribute to teaching, co-supervise projects and provide employment opportunities.