CERTIFICATE
COURSE IN BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
NIIT Limited under the aegis of FITT, IIT Delhi jointly announce
CERTIFICATE COURSE IN BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
| About the programme Bioinformatics and Computational Biology bring together expertise from diverse fields such as Computers, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine. Whereas in a restrictive definition, Bioinformatics is concerned with creation, management and application of biological databases, Computational Biology is concerned with structure, dynamics, interaction and function of biomolecules. Availability of genome sequences of humans, plants and pathogens are beginning to lead to wholly unanticipated new applications of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in both health care and agriculture. Base by base mapping of the DNA content in a cell has heralded a new and exciting scientific endeavour of unprecedented magnitude, the culmination of which is a molecular level understanding of the entire organism and its response to perturbations, in essence life at a molecular level. The diversity of disciplines encompassed by Bioinformatics underscores the necessity for specialized training programmes targeting, (a) scientists and executives in Biotech., Pharma and Agro industries to facilitate a more informed decision making in their R& D activities and (b) the next generation of students and scientists to initiate them into research in Bioinformatics. The programme introduces basic concepts and tools in Bioinformatics highlighting some of the outstanding research problems and promises thereof. Although intense, due to the short-term nature of the course, the goal is not to impart expertise but acquaintance. The IT modules of the course are offered at NIIT and the Bioinformatics modules at the Supercomputing Facility. Course Overview 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. A joint certification by NIIT and IIT Delhi, this is a six-month course that leads to a certificate course in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The course aims to cover all the relevant IT technologies helpful in the search and analysis done in the field of Bioinformatics and the Bio- related subjects. Spread over 6 months, the programme includes 240 hours of intense training on IT, 96 hours on Fundamentals of Modern biology, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology & 144 hours of on-site training at the Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. Read more about the course http://www.netvarsity.com/nv000/iitmain.asp, www.fitt-iitd.org, www.iitd.ac.in Read a news article http://www.niit.com/niit/ContentAdmin/NWS/NWSPR/NWSPR2/pr-290304.htm |
| For more details contact: bioinformatics@niit.com |