PhD Programmes

The department sees itself as a knowledge generation community of researchers, teachers and students. The clear aim of the department is to produce new knowledge in the field of Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and allied areas through an informational perspective of life process. Since 2006, the department has been a research centre of the University of Kerala. The department offers PhD Programme in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Being an interdisciplinary branch, the department admits researchers from different backgrounds. The University accepts doctoral applications in January and July every year and the admission is based on a PhD entrance examination in Bioinformatics, held by the University every year in September/ October. (Exemption is given to MPhil holders/ KSCSTE/ UGC-NET/ DBT-BIF Fellowship holders and certain other categories.) As per the order Ac.C/4402/2011 dated 29/6/2011, a PhD degree in Bioinformatics is considered equivalent to a PhD degree in the faculty and subject in which a candidate holds his/her masters degree.

Research Handbook

For M.Phil and Research Scholars

Areas of Research

  • Machine Learning Applications in Bioinformatics

  • Protein-Protein interaction networks

  • Bio-sequence studies using DSP Characterisation of Hub proteins

  • Protein sub-cellular localization prediction

  • Plant transcriptomics Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology

  • Transcription factor binding site and affinity prediction

  • Immuno-informatics of cancer Small gene identification

  • Molecular evolution of RNA viruses

  • Computer aided drug design based on natural products

  • Investigations into non-coding DNA Transcriptomics & Genomics

  • Biosequence compression

  • Accurate scoring matrices for sequence alignment.

Fellowship opportunities

Following fellowship opportunities are available for PhD students:

    • University of Kerala Fellowship - For all FT students @ Rs. 10,000/- per month for the first two years and Rs. 10,500/- per month for the third year.


    • KSCSTE Fellowship Programme - For those who pass the selection process of KSCSTE. Eligibility is described HERE and the fellowship is Rs. 22,000/- per month for the first two years and Rs. 25,000/- per month for the 3rd year. The fellowship will carry an annual contingency grant of Rs. 20,000/- plus H.R.A.


    • BINC Fellowship - BINC (Bioinformatics National Certification) Fellowship is an initiative of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. Centre for Bioinformatics is an examination Centre for the BINC exam.


    • UGC/CSIR Fellowship - In basic disciplines – Life Science / Computer Science.


    • SIUCEB Fellowship - Same as University Fellowship in Kerala.

PhD Awardees

    1. Computational Modelling of Biomolecular Interactions

- Dr. Silpa Bhaskaran.


    1. Studies on Regulation of Genes - An in silico Analysis of Angiogenesis Related Genes

- Dr. Sunitha P.


    1. Investigations into scoring of Sequence Alignments

- Dr. G. Renganayaki


    1. Investigation on naturally non-expressing sequences of D.melanogaster genome in search of novel therapeutic peptides

- Dr. Deepthi Varughese


    1. Insilco studies on molecular evolution and genotype specific drug discovery against Hepatitis C Virus

- Dr. Amjesh R.


    1. A Computational study of Novel Peptides designed against Alzheimer's Disease

- Dr. Navya Raj


    1. Computational Profiling and Prediction of piRNA Sequences

- Dr. Anusha Praveen Khan


    1. Studies on modeling vascular endothelial growth factor signaling pathway and its therapeutic inhibition

- Dr. Abhinand C.S


    1. Big Data Management & Bio Sequence Compression using parallel computing techniques

- Dr.Biji C.L


    1. Study of microRNAs in human infectious and non-infectious diseases

- Dr. Remya Krishnan


    1. Feature based computational prediction of Transcription Factor binding Site and Affinity

- Dr. Sheeba K


    1. In silico approach elucldate the bloactivity of formicidae venom

- Dr. Priya Das


    1. In silico analysis of Chikungunya viral Genome

- Dr. Vidhya R.V


    1. A computational Synthetic Biology Study of the Non-coding Genome of saccharomyces cerevisiae

- Dr. Shidhi P.R


    1. In Slico Charecterization of Hub Proteins using Soft Computing

- Dr. Aswathi B.L


    1. Computational Modeling Approach to Synthetic Biology

- Dr. Umesh P.


    1. Elusive Genes in Computational Gene Finding

- Dr. Baharak Goli


    1. Sequence Features for Computational Prediction of Protein Trafficking Phenomenon

- Dr. Geetha G.


    1. Mining Sequence Signatures of Allostery through Recurrence Quantification Analysis

- Dr. Saritha Namboodiri


    1. Studies into Fractality of Bio-sequences

- Dr. Gopakumar G.


    1. Computational Analysis of Knot Proteins

- Dr. Sr. Lissy Anto P.


    1. Computational Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localisation from Amino Acid Sequence Using Soft Computing Techniques

- Dr. Betsy Sheena Joji


    1. Bio-sequence Analysis using Chaos Game Representation Signals

- Dr. Vrinda V. Nair


    1. Soft Computing Algorithms for microRNA Sequence Analysis

- Dr. Vinod Chandra S.


    1. Novel Algorithms for Microarray Gene Expression Analysis

- Dr. Smitha Dharan


    1. Nutrimetabolomic profiling of selected Indian spices and in-silico investigation of specific molecular mechanisms

- Dr. Vijayalakshmi B


    1. Transcriptome sequencing and effector prediction in Pythium splendens: Oomycete Pathogen of Black Pepper

- Dr. Rani J.R.


    1. Studies on Anti-migraine activities of active principles from Cayratia Pedata

- Dr. Aswathy T. R.


    1. Investigation into big data analytics in bioinformatics

- Dr. Vineetha V.


    1. Studies into characterizing and negating certain noise signals

- Dr. Sajil C.K


    1. Investigations on Bio-inspired algorithms for networking

- Dr. R. Ananthalakshmi Ammal


    1. Investigation of electronic biosensors for diagonostics

- Dr. Ashwini Jayachandran


    1. In silico and Biochemical analyses of active compounds from Trichopus zeylanicus ssp.travancoricus with respect to antifatigue properties

- Dr. Anoop P.K.

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