University of Kerala
The University of Kerala is one among the older Universities of India nearing 70 years of service, and the first in the state of Kerala. The University began as the University of Travancore with initial focus on traditional teaching and research. Keeping pace with changes of time the university today focuses on advanced disciplines in applied sciences and technology including futures studies, optoelectronics, bioinformatics, biotechnology and computer sciences. As a state well known for its extremely high achievement in the field of primary education and availability of quality human resources in information technology and engineering, the university has been able to attract talent easily. The University has recently launched a scheme to incubate student entrepreneurial ventures under which SooryaKiran Bioinformatics has become the first beneficiary. See http://ww.keralauniversity.edu for more details.

Centre for Bioinformatics
The Centre for Bioinformatics was established by the University of Kerala in January 2005 to take up teaching, research and extension activities in bioinformatics and computational biology. This inter-disciplinary centre focuses of the computational applications in biology, drawing knowledge from mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, biology and bio-technology. The centre has currently a post-graduate program (M. Sc. in Computational Biology) and a post-masters program (M. Phil. in Bioinformatics) in addition to research programs leading to Ph. D in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology. The research areas are genomic signal processing, gene finding, protein structure prediction, protein sub-cellular localization, chaos game representation of bio-sequences, bio-sequence compression, systems and synthetic biology, homology modeling and micro-array data analysis etc. For more details visit For more details visit http://cbi.keralauniversity.edu

TechnoPark, Thiruvananthapuram
Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram; an autonomous society promoted by the Government of Kerala, is India's first technology park and among the three largest IT parks in India today. This is the first CMMI Level 5 assessed Technology Park. Technopark is the IT hub of the State of Kerala, and based in Trivandrum which can rightfully claim to be the knowledge capital of the region. Technopark provides world class, robust and failsafe physical, power and datacom infrastructure, offering a no compromise yet low cost enabling environment for IT industry that is leveraged by its occupant companies for a competitive advantage. Visit http://www.technopark.org for more detaills.