DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Overview

The Department of Bioinformatics deals with teaching computational and biological techniques to solve complex scientific problems. The department strives to facilitate learning in cutting-edge fields such as Forensics, DNA fingerprinting, Stem cells, Cancer research, Genetic methods of medical diagnostics, Evolutionary studies and Genetic Counselling. We are equipped with intellectually active faculty members specializing in multiple areas of life science, having research collaborations with international universities and research laboratories. Our students are pursuing internships in off-shore laboratories and industries to enhance their technical skills. To support this theoretical learning, we have established well-structured wet and computational labs.

Computational Biology has become an essential component of intensive functional genomics, comparative genomics, gene discovery, transcriptional regulatory networks, biochemical pathway analysis, molecular modeling, proteomics and rational drug design.

Vision & Mission

• The primary goal of the department is to increase our understanding of biological processes pertaining to rational drug design.

• To develop core competencies, analytical and informatics tools and methodologies for the acquisition, storage, analysis, interpretation and integration of staggering amounts of biomedical data, generated from genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic studies, using high performance computational systems with the ultimate goal of elucidating differences between health and disease.

• To provide training and enhance the skills of students in Computational biology