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DEPARTMENT OF
BIOINFORMATICS consists of
faculty members who are skilled enough
to handle their field of teaching very
easily.
YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT: 2003
Department consist of 9 faculty members
and around 300 students per 60 students
in each year. Teachers are very helpful
and have mutual Co-operation with students.
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Programs
Offered
The Department offers the following
courses
B.Tech.
Bioinformatics
M.Tech.
Bioinformatics * Approved by Council
starting next year
Research
Our development has defined thrust areas
in which major researches goings are
actively pursued. Two main projects
are,
> development of Anti-cancer
agents based on the Structure of Vinca
alkaloids
> Studies on Tsunami
and its impact on various biological
species and step towards Disaster Management
Our focus of the research is mainly
with the application of
Computational strategies in the field
of carcinogens. The aim of our research
is to design some anti cancer agents
based on the structure of Vinca alkaloids
(derived from plants which are used
to chemotherapeutic agents) protruding
towards QSAR leading to some new herbal
drugs which will play a vital role in
the chemotherapeutic treatment by near
future. Based on the above justification
we are aiming to broaden our research
to other diseases like Tuberculosis/
HIV etc.
The second project focus on the studies
on Tsunami and its biological species
especially aiming on the prospects of
bioremediation.
As a mitigation measure for Tsunami
disaster it was proposed that Mangrove,
casuarinas or Palm vegetation will be
protective
· Having known
the impact of Tsunami, it is the need
of the hour to do progressive work on
the relative field.
ENVIRONMENT
(MOLECULAR OPERATING SYSTEM) SOFTWARE
CHEMICAL COMPUTING GROUP, Inc (CCG)
is the leading supplier of scientific
software for life Science. CCG's software
platform, the Molecular operating environment
(MOE), combines visualization, Simulation
and method development in a single package.
Used for:
Protein modeling
Cheminformatics & QSAR
Pharmacophore modeling
Structure-based design
Molecular modeling & Simulation
Application:
MOE application are written in the Scientific
vector Language (SVL), an embedded chemistry
aware programming language created by
CCG. It runs on a range of OS platforms
(Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, IBM AIX,
HP-UX, Sun Solaris and SILICON Graphics
Irix).CCG is based in Montreal, CANADA
with corporate offices in Cambridge,
UK, Koln, Germany and Bangalore, INDIA.
Placement
The career prospect in bioinformatics
has been steadily increasing with more
and more use of I.T in the field of
Molecular Biology. Job prospects are
in all sectors of Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals
and Biomedical Science in research institutions,
hospitals and industry.
Nature of job varies as-Bioinformatician,
Biomedical computational scientist,
genetic Biostatistician, computational
chemist, data base and design maintenance
etc.
Sathyam, wipro, T.C.S, Reliance have
started absorbing Bioinformatics students. |
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