Congratulations on your offer to study Applied Bioinformatics in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. We're thrilled to welcome you and look forward to you joining our community.

Explore the content below for useful tips and information to help you prepare for your studies and get a feel for your course. There are so many ways you can keep connected over the next few months including chatting to both staff and students and attending events. 

You will also find any upcoming offer holder events listed below, so please check back for updates.

• Explore our content below to find out more about our Applied Bioinformatics course.
• Take a look at our reading list below.
• Got a question? Ask Programme Lead Dr Alessandra Vigilante on Unibuddy. 
• Find out about our new Hub for Applied Bioinformatics (HAB).
• Take a look at some further information below for offer holders such as our Accommodation guide and pre-sessional English language programmes.
• Watch a recording of the online Offer Holder Session

Have a read through our reading list below:

Unix

• The Linux Command line, William Shotts (Free book available https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php)
• Software Carpentry: https://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/

R

• R for data science https://r4ds.had.co.nz/
• Software carpentry R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis https://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-gapminder/
• Software carpentry Programming with R https://swcarpentry.github.io/r-novice-inflammation/

SQL and Python

• W3 Schools https://www.w3schools.com/

AI/Machine learning

• Introduction to Machine Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists by Andreas C. Müller and Sarah Guido
• Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville: Deep learning The MIT Press, 2016, 800 pp, ISBN: 0262035618, https://www.deeplearningbook.org/

AI/Machine learning online guides

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-ai/
• https://scikit-learn.org/stable/index.html

Watch Dr Alessandra Vigilante deliver an overview of the course. Please note this session was recorded in 2024.

Watch a recording of our online session for postgraduate offer holders. Hear from faculty staff as they introduce the faculty, and learn more about the student experience, careers, and employability support. Please note, this event took place on 13 May 2026.

Watch a day in the life video to gain an insight about what it is like to study a postgraduate programme in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. 

Filmed by Elysia Komen, Public Health MPH student.