BNFO at Virginia Commonwealth University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BNFO coursework.

• MATH 200Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.opens 12 courses (6 directly)
• BIOL 151Introduction to Biological Sciences I.opens 8 courses (3 directly)
• STAT 210Basic Practice of Statisticsopens 8 courses (3 directly)
• STAT 212Concepts of Statisticsopens 8 courses (3 directly)
• BIOL 300Cellular and Molecular Biologyopens 6 courses (2 directly)
• BIOL 310Geneticsopens 4 courses (3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BNFO work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 23 BNFO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 30 more BNFO courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on BNFO, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BNFO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at BNFO 541

  1. MATH 151Precalculus Mathematics
  2. MATH 200Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.
  3. BIOL 151Introduction to Biological Sciences I.
  4. BIOL 300Cellular and Molecular Biology
  5. BIOL 310Genetics
  6. BIOL 540Fundamentals of Molecular Genetics
  7. BNFO 541Laboratory in Molecular Genetics

• 4 courses deep, ending at BNFO 301

  1. MATH 151Precalculus Mathematics
  2. MATH 200Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.
  3. STAT 210Basic Practice of Statistics

• 3 courses deep, ending at BNFO 305

  1. MATH 151Precalculus Mathematics
  2. BNFO 201Computing Skills and Concepts for Bioinformatics
  3. BNFO 305Biological Data Science With Python

• 2 courses deep, ending at BNFO 700

  1. BIOL 601Integrated Bioinformatics
  2. BNFO 700Externship in Bioinformatics

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for BNFO yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BNFO yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

BNFO does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the VCU campus feed.