University of Toronto Mississauga
BIO259H5
Introduction to Biological Data
What was the average?
C+
2.2 GPA across 3 observed terms. Most recent: Winter 2026.
How is it graded?
35% final
From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 11 graded components.
How confident is this?
Med
A small number of terms, so read it as a range.
From the calendar
Official source · University of Toronto MississaugaThis course introduces students to the exploration and analysis of biological data through computation. Students will learn to import, parse, and manipulate biological datasets and develop statistical intuition using R.
- Exclusions
- BIOB20H3
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture · 24 practical · 12 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Winter 20263 terms observed
This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.
Per-term figures stay hidden until each term clears five contributors. 3 observations can support one honest number; they cannot support 3.
Where the marks come from
Fall 2026 syllabusExtracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.
How well we know this course
2022–2025Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for BIO259H5, across 2 years between 2022 and 2025.
- 1
- Final exams
- 1
- Syllabi
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What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | University of Toronto Mississauga | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 3 terms | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| 2 archived documents, 2022-2025 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
| Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: B. Britto) | Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga) | 2026-09-05 | official syllabus |
Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
17 courses list BIO259H5 as a prerequisiteThe other 13 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names BIO259H5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what BIO259H5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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