Professional Cert in Bioinformatics

Professional Certificate in Bioinformatics

The Professional Certificate in Bioinformatics is a full-time, in person only, two-week course at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine. The programme coordinator is Professor Mark Crowe. This webpage will be updated in spring 2026 if the course runs again in the summer. Please contact (opens in a new window)sylvie.done@ucd.ie if you have any queries.

The course has a mammalian genomics focus - RNA seq, GWAS, RNA assembly, comparative genomics, population genetics and metagenomics.

Course programme 2025

The programme is available here. The module descriptor is available here.

Course lecturers 2025

(opens in a new window)Gavin Conant, North Carolina State University

(opens in a new window)Gavin Douglas University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Entry requirements

Applicants must have completed an undergraduate degree in Agriculture, Life Sciences or Veterinary Medicine.

Applicants must have recently undertaken a Biostatistics course (and to upskill or remind themselves of statistics basics before coming on the course).

All applications will be reviewed by the programme coordinator.

Course fee

For UCD research students, the course is included in the registration fee when students use it to complete taught course work credits. For everybody else, the fee is 2025 was €2,000.