COM SCI CM186
Computational Systems Biology: Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems
Grades
3.60
Average grade awarded in COM SCI CM186. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
68%
of the 40 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 40 grades over 2 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 2 terms ran 3.47 to 4.00.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 2 · 5.0%
- A 19 · 47.5%
- A- 6 · 15.0%
- B+ 5 · 12.5%
- B 5 · 12.5%
- B- 1 · 2.5%
- C 1 · 2.5%
- C- 1 · 2.5%
Percentages are of the 40 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session C 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISTEFANO, JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.50 | 3.47 | 30 | 1 | 57% | - | not teaching it |
| DISTEFANO, JOSEPH, III reviews ↗ | 3.72 | 4.00 | 10 · | 1 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Bioengineering CM186, Computational and Systems Biology M186, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology M178.) Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: Life Sciences 30A, 30B, Mathematics 32A or M32T, 33A, and 33B; or Mathematics 31A, 31B, 32A or M32T, 33A, and 33B. Dynamic biosystem modeling and computer simulation methods for studying biological/biomedical processes and systems at multiple levels of organization. Intermediate linear and nonlinear control system, multicompartmental, epidemiological, pharmacokinetic, and other biomodeling methods applied to life sciences problems at molecular, cellular, organ, and population levels. Both theory- and data-driven modeling, with focus on translating biomodeling goals and data into dynamical mathematical models, and implementing them for simulation, quantification, and analysis. Numerical simulation, optimization, and parameter identifiability and search algorithms, with model discrimination and analysis and software exercises in PC laboratory assignments. Concurrently scheduled with course CM286. Letter grading.
Sections in Summer Session C 2026
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