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Bioinformatics
Career Opportunity and Educational Institutes
Career Opportunity
It is fast emerging interdisciplinary research area. It gives the
opportunity to quickly and efficiently study heap of genetic sequences,
chemical structure and other biological data and to use these databases
to solve various problems and mysteries and uncover the wealth of the
hidden biological information to enhance the standard of life for
mankind. Bioinformatics has already started showing its profound impact
on human health, agriculture, environment and energy. It is being used
in the areas of molecular medicine to help produce better and more
customized medicines to prevent or cure diseases, it has environmental
benefit in identifying waste cleanup bacteria and in agriculture it can
be used for producing high yield lows maintenance crops. The career
prospects in the field have been steadily increasing with more and more
use of information technology in the field of molecular biology.
Job prospects are in all sectors of biotechnology,
pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, in research institutions,
hospital and industry. Challenges and career areas for any
bioinformatician and bioinformaticist include sequence assembly,
database design and information storage, management and integration, to
develop sequence analysis software, proteomics (study 3D structure of
protein and functions), gene mining, pharmacogenomics, informatics
developer,
biostatistics,
computational chemist, bioanalytics and drug designing.
Cheminformatics is rapidly picking up the pace in India
and foreign countries. Because of strong chemistry education sector with
vast biochemical diversity along with well established ayurvedic system
of medicine etc. India will be the hub of Cheminformatics very soon.
Most of the patents for drugs are likely to expire around 2011. After
that companies which will be having better drug discovery or
Cheminformatics sector will concur the world drug market. With huge
accumulation of gene and protein sequences database lots of career
opportunities have opened in this field particularly in pharmacogenomics
and gene chip designing.
Students with biosciences and chemistry in graduation and later learnt IT
skills are now-a-days are eligible to apply in this field. But an IT
person with strong knowledge of molecular biology is also preferred in
bioinformatics.
Courses and Eligibility:
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B.Tech in
bioinformatics: 10 + 2 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English.
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M.Sc in
Bioinformatics: BSc/ BSc (agriculture)/BCS/Be/B.Tech/MBBS
/B.Pharm/BHMS/BVSc.
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Advanced
diploma in Bioinformatics: M.Sc in Botany, Zoology, Life sciences,
Biochemistry, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biophysics, Pharmacology,
Agriculture, or M.Tech or MBBS Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and
Computer sciences.
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M.Tech in
Bioinformatics: Pharmacy graduates, medical, dental and veterinary
sciences and graduates or post graduates in science.
Educational Institutes
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Amity University.
www.amity.edu.
Course: UG and PG courses in Bioinformatics |
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Best Biotek Research labs (p) Ltd.
www.bestbiotek.com.
Diploma in bioinformatics, Clinical and chem-informatics |
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Bharathiar
university, school of biotechnology, Coimbatore– 641046, Tamil
Nadu, phone- 0422-242222. Course: visit:
www.bharathiaruniv.ac.in.
Course:
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Bioinformatics institute of India. Noida (UP). Course:
PG/Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics |
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Calcutta university, senate house, 87/1,
college street, Kolkata- 700 073, phone- 0332241 0071. Web:
www.caluniv.ac.in.
Course:
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Indian institute of information
technology, Deoghat, Jhalwa campus, Allahabad- 211011,
phone–91-532-2552380, web:
www.iiita.ac.in.
Course:
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Infitech Global; Bangalore;
Phone:93416 26309.
www.infitechglobal.com.
Course: PG diploma in bioinformatics. |
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Institute of bioinformatics and applied
biotechnology, g-05, tech park mall, international technology
park Bangalore (ITPB), Whitefield road, Bangalore – 560 066,
phone- 91 (80) 2841 0029, 2841 2769, 2841 6034, web:
www.ibab.ac.in.
Course: Bioinformatics
diploma and degree. |
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Institute of
Bioinformatics and applied biotechnology. Joint venture of
Karnataka govt and ICICI Bank; Offers PG Diploma in
bioinformatics and 6-12 months lab course in Biotechniques. |
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Institute of
Cheminformatics Studies, Noida. Course: Diploma in
Cheminformatics. Department of Chemistry. |
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Jamia Hamdard Deemed University, New Delhi. Course:
Diploma in Cheminformatics. |
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Jamia Millia Islamia university,
department of computer science, Jamia nagar, new Delhi – 110
025, phone – 011-26980014, 26981717, web:
www.jmi.nic.in.
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Jaypee institute of information
technology university; Noida;
www.jiit.ac.in.
Bioinformatics |
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Karunya university, school of
biotechnology, karunya nagar, Coimbatore–641114, Tamil Nadu,
phone- 0422- 2614614. (5 lines), web-
www.karunya.edu
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Madurai kamaraj university, school of
biotechnology, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, phone 0452-2459166, 2459455,
web:
www.mkuuniversity.org
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Course: |
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Pondicherry university, bioinformatics
centre, school of life sciences, Pondicherry- 605014. Web:
www.bicpu.edu.in.
Course: |
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SRM university, 3, Veera-Swamy street,
west mambalam, Chennai–600 033. Phone–044-24742836, 24747231,
web:
www.srm-univ.ac.in.
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The Indian institutes which offer training programme
diploma courses include: Malabar Christian College, Kozikode.
Course:1 Year P.G. Diploma in Cheminformatics, Eligibility:
M.Sc. (Chemistry)/ M.Sc. (Bio-informatics)/ M.Pharma) |
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University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh, phone – 91-40-3010500, 23010245, web:
www.uohyd.ernet.in.
Course:
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University of pune, the director,
bioinformatics centre, Pune- 411 007, phone- 020-25692039, web:
www.bioinfo.ernet.in.
Course:
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