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BIOENGR M184

Introduction to Computational and Systems Biology

2 units

Sections & times

Lecture.

Fall 2026: 1 section. It is open. The oldest of these readings was 54 minutes ago.

Also listed as C&S BIO M184 (open, 74 of 80 enrolled), COM SCI M184 (open, 46 of 60 enrolled, standing limit): the same class, and each department holds its own seats and its own grade history.

Grades

No grade history for this course: the data runs Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Sections for Fall 2026 are below. The same class is graded under C&S BIO M184 and COM SCI M184, where the history is kept.

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Reviews for BIOENGR M184

Workload and assignments

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What comes first

The chain dibs can see is 3 courses long before BIOENGR M184. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for C&EE M20, LIFESCI 30B, MATH 3B, and MECH&AE M20, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.

Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.

From the registrar's catalog

(Same as Computational and Systems Biology M184 and Computer Science M184.) Lecture, two hours; outside study, four hours. Enforced requisites: one course from Civil Engineering M20, Computer Science 31, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering M20, or Program in Computing 10A; and Life Sciences 30B or Mathematics 3B or 31B. Survey course designed to introduce students to computational and systems modeling and computation in biology and medicine, providing motivation, flavor, culture, and cutting-edge contributions in computational biosciences and aiming for more informed basis for focused studies by students with computational and systems biology interests. Presentations by individual UCLA researchers discussing their active computational and systems biology research. P/NP grading.

Sections in Fall 2026

Seat counts as of . Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.

From the people who took it

Student reviews

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Seats over time in Fall 2026

How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.

A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.

What a flat run means, and where a line starts

Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.

Lec 1 · Eskin, E. and an unnamed TA · 5 of 10 enrolled

Freed 2 seats over about 1 month

5 of 10 · 5 left
18 Aug 21:4010 Sep 02:212 Oct 07:02
dibs read 168 of the 738 hours its hourly record covers, 23%, and did not look in 570. dibs had no hourly record before 1 Sep, which is the other 329 of 1067 plotted.5 of 10 enrolled at the newest reading, 54 minutes ago, with 5 left. Seats from 18 Aug 21:40 to 2 Oct 07:02, 7 to 5. dibs read 168 of the 738 hours its hourly record here covers, 23%. An hour marked as read confirms a check, not continuous monitoring. That check recorded no change; changes between checks may be missed. For 570 hours dibs was keeping a record and did not reach this section. Nothing before 1 September at 14:00, where this section's record starts, has a read either way, which is 329 hours of this window. Where the drawing is faint or broken, that never means the readings are doubtful. It means the stretch between them is unaccounted for.
How readings and alerts work

A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.

Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.

The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.