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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. University administration is housed in the heart of city Thiruvananthapuram (also known as Trivandrum) and a sprawling campus in the outskirts of the city which houses over 40 teaching and research departments. Adjacent to the University campus is the Techno Park, the greenest techno polis in the world employing over 10,000 professionals with whom the University has close ties. The University has recently launched a scheme to incubate student entrepreneurial ventures under which SooryaKiran Bioinformatics becoming the first beneficiary. See
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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 programme (MSc in Computational Biology) and a post-masters programme (MPhil in Bioinformatics) in addition to research programmes leading to PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology.
The MPhil (Bioinformatics) programme is offered under Credit and Semester System with 15 seats. The courses include: Bio-Mathematics & Statistics, Web Programming, Genomics Proteomics and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Introduction to IT (E), Introduction to Life Sciences (E), Algorithms in Computational Biology (E), Micro Array Bioinformatics, Applied Bioinformatics (E), Seminar, Project & Viva Voce.
The Msc(Computational Biology) programme with 8 seats admits students from computing and allied areas (BSc (Computer Science), BSc (Electronics), BCA, BSc Physics and Computer Applications, BSc in any branch with PGDCA, BTech (Biotechnology)). It covers the following courses: Introduction to Life Sciences, Bio Mathematics & Statistics, Bio-Physics, Computational Genomics, Introduction to Biotechnology, Computational Proteomics & Metabolemics, Computational Transcriptomics, Molecular Phylogenetics, Advanced Programming Tools, Computer Aided Drug Design, Micro Array Image Processing, Project & Viva Voce, and Elective courses (Systems Biology, Data Mining, Professional Studies, Synthetic Biology, Advanced Topics, Programming in Perl, Soft Computing methods in Bioinformatics)
The Centre has attracted funding from various state and national agencies such as Kerala State IT Mission, Dept of Information Technology, Govt of India, Dept of Bio-Technology, Govt of India, University Grants Commission, Dept of Science, Technology and Environment, Govt of Kerala.
Workshops and talks are organized regularly by the centre. Workshops/Seminars on Bioinformatics, Molecular Visualisation Softwares, Microarray Image Processing, Computer Modeling of Biological Pathways, Computer-Aided Drug Design, Scilab for Life Scientists, HMM for Bioinformaticians are some of the themes in the recent past. Bioinformatica India '08 (January 17-18, 2008) is a prestigious event organized by the Centre.
. The Centre is also a research centre for interdisciplinary research in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The areas identified 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 http://cbi.keralauniversity.edu |
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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. |
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