Bio-Informatics – Overview

The science of Bioinformatics is the melding of molecular biology with computer science, which is essential to the use of genomic information in understanding human diseases and in the identification of new molecular targets for drug discovery. It is in recognition of this that the under graduate degree in Bioinformatics with a duration of 8 semesters has been introduced. This curriculum provides an overall enhancement of information in sequence analysis, molecular modeling, drug designing, virtual screening and docking. The engineers with expertise in the Bioinformatics area have career and research opportunities all over the world in various fields like biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, industries, hospitals and research institutions.