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Certificate Course in Bioinformatics
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Bioinformatics is an emerging interdisciplinary area of Science and Technology, encompassing a systematic development and application of IT solution to handle biological information or data obtained by experiments, modeling, database search and instrumentation. Bioinformatics is the study of the inherent structure of biological information and biological systems. It brings together the avalanche of systematic biological data (e.g. genomes) with the analytic theory and practical tools of mathematics and computer science.
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Bioinformatics touches all areas of biology, with application to genome analysis, protein structure, prediction, target identification, drug-design and metabolomics and systems biology. Bioinformatics has become of central importance in the genomic and post-genomic age because of the vast amounts of information being generated from different disciplines for example- sequencing of human, bacterial, rice genomes have unraveled plethora of information or biological data which has wide-spectrum of applications in IT, pharma or biotech industries. At present every individual is being intimidated by the hype created around of emerging trends in area of biological, pharmaceutical, chemical or medical sciences and one of them is bioinformatics.
Aim and Objectives
The course is designed to provide an experience for an individual from any field to get well-acquainted with the tools and concepts of Bioinformatics. The course in ‘Bioinformatics’ aims to provide the students:
- The concepts of computer science that relate to problems in biological sciences.
- Commercial and academic perspectives on Bioinformatics.
- The impact of Bioinformatics on the methodologies used in biological sciences.
- The influence that biological sciences have on computing science.
The course is relevant to a wide range of professionals working in the industries that involve knowledge of the networks and databases in Bioinformatics and the use and development of computer software for the analysis of biological data, drug designing, target-identification etc.
The course would open new job avenues in the area of biology and students would be well-versed with the following concepts of Bioinformatics.
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