Current Students

Study Plans

In order to complete the programme in a timely manner, students are advised to follow the various study plans closely:
For Student Cohorts of AY2004/2005 and AY2005/2006
  • Study Plan A
    For students with 'A' level passes or equivalent in Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
  • Study Plan B
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Biology.
  • Study Plan C
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Chemistry.
  • Study Plan D
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Physics.
For Student Cohorts of AY2006/2007 and AY2007/08
  • Study Plan A
    For students with 'A' level passes or equivalent in Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
  • Study Plan B
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Biology.
  • Study Plan C
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Chemistry.
  • Study Plan D
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Physics.
For Student Cohort Matriculated in AY2008/2009
  • Study Plan A
    For students with 'A' level passes or equivalent in Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
  • Study Plan B
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Biology.
  • Study Plan C
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Chemistry.
  • Study Plan D
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Physics.
For Student Cohort Matriculated in and after AY2009/2010
  • Study Plan A
    For students with 'A' level passes or equivalent in Biology, Chemistry and Physics.
  • Study Plan B
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Biology.
  • Study Plan C
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Chemistry.
  • Study Plan D
    For students without 'A' level passes or equivalent passes in Physics.
All students in the Computational Biology Programme are required to complete the four-year honours programme requirements as set out here. There is no allowance in the programme for students to exit after three years with a general Bachelor of Science Degree.

Graduation Matters

Filing for Graduation
Students should file for 'honours graduation' (FFG=H) via CORS (Centralized Online Registration System) in their last semester of study. Before filing, the onus is on the students to ensure that all necessary modules required for graduation, including the compulsory one-year honours project, are fulfilled.

Degree Classification
As the Computational Biology Programme is a strict four-year programme, the following classifications will apply:

Classification CAP cut-off
1st Class Honours 4.50 and above, and an A- grade for the Honours Project Module
2nd Class Upper Honours 4.00 - 4.49
2nd Class Lower Honours 3.50 - 3.99
Third Class Honours 3.20 - 3.49
Pass 2.00 - 3.19
Fail Below 2.00

Honours Year Project
Students are NOT required to file for project (via CORS) in the semester before they embark on their honours project. Instead registration for Honours Project will be done through the Science Dean's Office. Details on the honours project registration will be emailed to students enrolled in the programme.

Honours Project Supervisors
The list of staff members with whom Computational Biology students may do their project are as follows:

A) Staff from Faculty of Science

Department of Biological Sciences
Staff Contact Details Research Areas/Interests
Assoc Prof Chan Woon Khiong dbscwk@nus.edu.sg
6516-8096		 SAGE, stem cell transcriptome
Assoc Prof Christopher Hogue dbshcwv@nus.edu.sg
6516-7066		 Systems architecture, molecular assembly, quantitative biochemistry.
Assoc Prof Henry Mok dbsmokh
S3-04-01
6516-2967		 Computer docking of small molecule inhibitor on anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family proteins
Assoc Prof Low Boon Chuan dbslowbc@nus.edu.sg
S2-05-05
6516-7834		 Cell signaling, bioinformatics
Assoc Prof Swarup, Sanjay dbsss@nus.edu.sg
S1A-06-42
6516-7933		 Metabolomics and Bioinformatics
Assoc Prof Yang Daiwen dbsydw@nus.edu.sg
S3-04-02
6516-1014		 Protein NMR and folding
Asst Prof Liou Yih-Cherng dbslyc@nus.edu.sg
S2-L5-01
6516-7711 		Protein structure and cell signaling
Asst Prof Martti Tammi dbstmt@nus.edu.sg
S2-04-05A
6516-4255		 Bioinformatics

Department of Mathematics
Staff Contact Details Research Areas/Interests
Prof Vladimir A. Kuznetsov vladimirk@bii.a-star.edu.sg
6478-8288 		Computational Systems Biology, integrative bioinformatics, computational oncogenomics
Assoc Prof Zhang Louxin matzlx@nus.edu.sg
S14-04-7A
6516-6579		 Computational genomics
Asst Prof Guillaume Bourque bourque@gis.a-star.edu.sg
6478-8197		 Comparative genomics

Department of Pharmacy
Staff Contact Details Research Areas/Interests
Prof Chen Yuzong phacyz@nus.edu.sg
S16-08-14
6516-6877		 Computational biology, bioinformatics, computer aided drug design, herbal medicine

Department of Physics
Staff Contact Details Research Areas/Interests
Prof Liu Xiang-Yang phyliuxy@nus.edu.sg
S13-M-04
6516-2812		 Biophysics, Micro/Nano Structure formation and engineering, Crystallization/molecular assembly and hybrid materials
Asst Prof Liu Ruchan phylr@nus.edu.sg
S13-02-11
6516-1303		 Protein folding and interaction, cell adhesion, molecular tracking, single-molecule force and fluorescence
Asst Prof Yan Jie phyyj@nus.edu.sg
S7-01-10
6516-2620		 Statistical physics of biopolymer conformations and their response to external fields and defect excitations

Department of Statistics & Applied Probability
Staff Contact Details Research Areas/Interests
Assoc Prof Choi Kwok Pui stackp@nus.edu.sg
S16-07-105
6516-4387		 Statistical and/or probabilistical problems arising from computational biology, in particular, sequence analysis
Asst Prof Li Jialiang stalj@nus.edu.sg
S16-07-111
6516-8932		 Experimental design, dose response models, Monte Carlo methods, nonparametric methods
Asst Prof Xu Jinfeng staxj@nus.edu.sg
S16-07-112
6516-8473		 Statistical analysis of genetic data, genome-wide association study
Asst Prof Yap Von Bing stayapvb@nus.edu.sg
S16-06-105
6516-7143		 Computational biology, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, sequential analysis
Dr Teo Yik Ying statyy@nus.edu.sg
S16-06-115
6516-3953		 Genome-wide association studies, genetic epidemiology

B) Staff from Outside Faculty of Science

Please note that if you make arrangements with a staff from outside the Faculty of Science to be your supervisor, a staff from the Faculty of Science should act as your co-supervisor.


Staff Organisation Contact Details Research Areas/Interests
Asst Prof Lee Dong-Yup Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Engineering cheld@nus.edu.sg Systems biology/biotechnology, bioinformatics, in silico antimicrobial drug targeting, synthetic biology, microbial and mammalian cell factories
Prof P.S. Thiagarajan School of Computing thiagu@comp.nus.edu.sg Computational systems biology, bio-pathways modeling, simulations, analysis, probabilistic dynamics
Dr Sebastian Maurer-Stroh Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR sebastianms@bii.a-star.edu.sg Protein sequence analysis; 3D structure and function prediction;Posttranslational modification and targeting motifs;Effects of disease mutations; Evolution

http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/research/bfd/psa.php
Dr Martin Wasser Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR martinw@bii.a-star.edu.sg Developmental Biology; 3D video-microscopy; Image Analysis; Image Processing; Computer Vision; Computer Graphics

http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/research/iig/liaiaDetails.php
Dr Ivana Mihalek Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR ivanam@bii.a-star.edu.sg Comparative analysis of protein structures and sequences; algorithm development; computational simulation of biological systems

http://epsf.bmad.bii.a-star.edu.sg/
Dr M.S. Madhusudhan Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR madhusudhan@bii.a-star.edu.sg Modeling the 3D structure of proteins and protein complexes; Algorithm development

http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/research/bmad/mspc.php
Dr Chandra Verma Bioinformatics Institute, ASTAR chandra@bii.a-star.edu.sg Structural dynamics of protein; peptide-drug design

http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/research/bmad/asdb.php
Dr Neil Clarke Computational and Mathematical Biology/Genome Institute of Singapore (also Adjunct Professor of Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine) clarken@gis.a-star.edu.sg Comparative genomics
Dr Victor Tong Joo Chuan Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A* STAR (also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine) victor@bic.nus.edu.sg Computational immunology, computational epigenetics, virtual combinatorial library design, synthetic biology
A/Prof Laszlo Orban Reproductive Genomics Group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory laszlo@tll.org.sg Fish genomics, teleost reproduction, sex change, genome evolution, global gene expression, sex chromosomes, comparative genome hybridizations
Dr Lisa Ng Fong Poh Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), A*STAR (also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine) lisa_ng@immunol.a-star.edu.sg Viral immuno-biology, inflammasome

Timeline for Honours Project

For Students who began in Semester 1 AY2009/10

S/N Item Action By Remarks
1. Submission of HYP Project Descriptions 8 August 2009 Students are to submit their Honours project proposals to compbio@nus.edu.sg for approval by the Computational Biology Undergraduate Programme Committee.
2. Mid Progress Report (Oral Presentations) 5 (Mon) to 9 Oct (Fri) 2009
[8th week]		 1) The presentation followed by Q&A session would be graded by the supervisor(s) and/or co-supervisor(s).

2) Students should liase with their supervisors on the arrangements for the presentations.

3) Students should prepare powerpoint slides.
3. Submission of HYP Thesis 2 April 2010 (Fri)
[End of 11th week]		 1) Students are to submit one set of their thesis each to their supervisor(s), co-supervisor(s) (if any) and examiner, for the grading of their projects.
4. Final Oral Presentation 10 April (Sat) 2010
[12th week]		 1) The 20 mins presentation followed by a 10 mins Q&A session would be graded by the supervisors and/or co-supervisors and examiners.

2) An email prior to 10 April 2010 will be sent to students to inform them of the arrangements for the presentations.

Programme Coordinators
Students seeking academic advice may approach the following programme advisors:

Name Email Tel Department
Assoc Prof Low Boon Chuan (Chairman) dbslowbc@nus.edu.sg 6516-7834 Biological Sciences
Prof Chen Yu Zong phacyz@nus.edu.sg 6516-6877 Pharmacy
Assoc Prof Choi Kwok Pui stackp@nus.edu.sg 6516-2770 Statistics
Assoc Prof Zhang Louxin matzlx@nus.edu.sg 6516-6579 Mathematics
For general administrative enquiries, please send to our Computational Biology mailbox compbio@nus.edu.sg  .

Concurrent Programme in Computational Biology with Brown University

Admissions by B.Sc. (Hons.) Computational Biology students to this concurrent programme

 

Faculty of Science students in B.Sc. (Hons.) Computational Biology programme are eligible to apply for admission to this concurrent degree programme at any time during their study if they meet the following criteria:

 

(i)   (i) A CAP of at least 4.00;

(ii)  (ii) Must have read the following Computer Science related modules on top of the B.Sc. (Computational Biology) degree requirements - CS2100 Computer Organisation, CS2102 Database Systems and CS3230 Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

 

Faculty of Science Computational Biology students who join this concurrent degree programme will graduate with a Bachelor of Science (Computational Biology) Honours degree from NUS and a Scientiae Magister in Computer Science (Computational Biology) degree from the University of Brown.

 

The objective of establishing such a special admission criteria is to ensure that students entering the Scientiae Magister in Computer Science - Computational Biology track offered at Brown University have sufficient computer science background.

 

Admission application will be considered by the Joint Committee of this Concurrent programme. The Joint Committee reserves the right to adjust the special admission criteria to ensure the readiness of students in admitting to the Scientiae Magister in Computer Science - Computational Biology track.

 

For more information on the concurrent programme with Brown University, please click on this link: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/undergradprog/u-bcompcb_brown.html .

 

For the application form to this concurrent degree programme, please click here.

 

 

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