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ANDHRA UNIVERSITY :Offers M.Tech BIOINFORMATICS

More info regarding the pro gramme refer to the following site:

http://www.andhrauniversity.info/engg/csse/syllabus.html

BANASTHALI UNIVERSITY: M.Sc. (2 years) and P.G. diploma course (1 year) in bioinformatics,Refer to the link below

http://www.banasthali.org/banasthali/wcms/en/home/lower-menu/faculties/maths-app-comp-tech/maths-app-comp-tech_top/bio_info/index.html

INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS & APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGY(IBAB):

PG DIPLOMA IN BIOINFORMATICS

INDIAN INSTITUE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(Allahabad):Offers M.Tech in BIOINFORMATICS

http://bi.iiita.ac.in/

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY,tarnaka HYD

ADVANCED COURSE IN BIOINFORMATICS

http://www.iictindia.org/zacb/

INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS & INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY,Delhi

Offers PhD Prrogramme in Bioinformatics

MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY,BARODA

Offers MS in Bioinformatics.

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Helpful tips for students who are in their Final and Pre-final year of their bachelors degree and wish to continue education into Masters level in India:
The information provided is strictly for students who want to get into MSc/M.Tech BIOINFORMATICS:
Well first of all lets sort out the list of universities taht we have in hand providing the Masters level course I will start with the most reknowned universities and go in the descending order:

1.UNIVERSITY OF PUNE:  http://bioinfo.ernet.in/courses/IndexMSC.html
 Is renowned amongst us for being one of the first in India DBT (Dept of Biotechnology) approved Bioinformatics centre.

BIOINFORMATICS CENTRE (D.I.C.) 
University of Pune,
Pune – 411007
Tel: 5690195/5692039
Website: http//www.bioinfo.ernet.in/www/center.html  


2
JAWHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY (JNU)
New Delhi – 110067
Phone: 26165886/ 26167557
Website: http://www.jnu.ac.in/cbt/cbt.html
 There is an Advanced (Graduate) Diploma in Bioinformatics offered by the Bioinformatics Centre at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.The University itself conducts M.Tech entrance examination every yr for student enrollment into M.Tech Bioinformatics,Biotechnology.


3. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI  
Haus Khas, New Delhi –110016
Tel: 26582222/ 26581696
Website: http://www.iitd.ernet.in  

4.Madurai Kamaraj University in Madurai, claims to have been the first in the country to initiate a bioinformatics programme and advanced diploma in bioinformatics at its School of Biotechnology.

5.IIIT Hyderabad : Offers M.Tech BIOINFORMATICS course and they conduct and entrance cum interview based examination.

6.UNIVERSITY OF PONDICHERRY : MSc BIOINFORMATICS Entrance examination is conducted.

7.UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD: M.Tech BIOINFORMATICS as seen this year they have introduced merit basis selection of candidates including your GATE score in Biotechnology,shortlisted candidates are called for Interview in later phase.


8.CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY  
Anna University, Chennai- 600025, INDIA
Phone: 2350772, 2350299
Email: arunb@annauniv.edu
Website: http://www.annauniv.edu/biotech/btch.html   

9. BIOINFORMATICS CENTRE 
SCHOOL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
Madurai Kamraj University
Madurai – 625021
Tel: 452-459105
Email: kdharmalingam@vsnl.com  


10.BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY 
Coimbatore – 46
Website: http//www.bharathiaruni.org    

The universities mentioned above are one of the top notch universities and students getting enrolled have bright future seen as for getting Phds as well as for future jobs.

Once we have shortlisted our universities lets just review what exactly do we have to prepare for? as most of these universities involve enrollment via entrance examination!!! goshhh yes yes and the syllabi is definitely very vast even I got shocked when i saw my old BOTANY book of 11std in front to study for Pune entrance(:o)..so students BE PREPARED!!! and the earlier you strt the better your opportunities in getting into these courses. 

Most of these examinations actually look out for your basics you must be strong in your BIOPHYSICS BIOCHEMISTRY STATISTICS and ofcourse your MOLECULAR BIOLOGY as you can see thses subjects are mostly concentrate din your SECOND Yr.. So be through with your second yr syllabus.  

More on Bioinformatics

Bio informatics is a subject that has extraordinary promise not just in the design of drugs and therapies but also in the basic understanding of life itself. It is the application of information technology to the management of biological data and is a rapidly evolving scientific discipline.


It encompasses research, development and application of computational tools and aims at expanding the use of biological, medical, behavioural, or health data. Hence data is acquired, stored, organized, archived and then analysed. Bio informatics relies on statistical methods.


Specialized work is carried on in drugs research, agrochemicals, hybridization, plastics and petroleum derivatives, environmental remediation etc.


Nature of Work

Bio informatics performs two critical roles : develops IT tools embodying novel algorithms and analytical techniques, or applies existing tools to achieve new insights into molecular biology in testing, documentation, running operating procedures and database administration, programming, software development, algorithm creation and scientific visualization. Bio informatics can be applied to all areas of life sciences and other fields like energy and textiles, pharmaceuticals and agriculture. Bio informatics is used for treatment of genetic diseases. Knowledge about the method in which drugs work at the genetic level finds applications in the treatment of cancer as well as infectious diseases like AIDS. Bio-informatics also throws light on toxicogenomics, a speciality that tries to find an answer as to why drugs work better on some patients than on others. Using bio informatics, drugs can be developed much faster to facilitate as well as accelerate the treatment of diseases.

The experiment on cloning is also an area of bio-informatics.


Study & Training

Bio informatics course covers : Introduction to genetics, molecular and cell biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, microbiology, evolutionary biology ; fundamentals of bio informatics ; branches and application areas of bio informatics ; use of software tools and databases available on the web ; Sequence analysis ; Protein modeling.


In addition to the above, depending on the standards of the institution, some introduction is also made in areas that influence the bio informatics :


Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) Fingerprinting and computer science, MS Office, Linux, HTML and Perl. Students of bio informatics are expected to be proficient with knowledge of Java, Unix, C, C++, RDBMS such as Oracle and Sybase, CORBA, Perl, CGI and web scripting is required at the IT end.


Graduates in Computer Science, genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, mathematics, physical chemistry, pharmaceuticals, floriculture, statistics, electrical engineering, biotechnology or organic chemistry are suitable for this programme.


The Government of India through the Department of Biotechnology is also taking up certain initial steps with regard to bio informatics education in India. The Department has drafted a National Bio informatics Policy 2002 and has collaborated with IIT Delhi to launch a two-year M Tech. Course. More than 70 universities are connected through a network for a first ever supercomputing facility in the country for Bio informatics and computational biology.


Centre for Bio technical Technology in collaboration with a private computer-training institute has launched a one-year postgraduate diploma course with an assurance that fifty per cent of the students would be absorbed in various projects. The qualifications for eligibility are M.Sc. in life science, MBBS, B.Tech or MCA.