M.Tech in BIOINFORMATICS

Bioinformatics is a branch of biological science which deals with the study of methods for storing, retrieving and analyzing biological data, such as nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) and protein sequence, structure, function, pathways and genetic interactions. It generates new knowledge that is useful in such fields as drug design and development of new software tools to create that knowledge. Bioinformatics also deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, structural biology, software engineering, data mining, image processing, modeling and simulation, discrete mathematics, control and system theory, circuit theory, and statistics.

It is also for the computer or information scientist to gain a perspective of biology by providing support either in terms of hardware or software to address the problems in biology or provide the ability to handle big data. A student entering the MTech program in Bioinformatics is taken through a journey in either Biology subjects or Computer Science subjects initially to some of the advanced or challenging problems that biology poses. It is a two year program which is very rigorous.

A student who is graduating from the MTech program in Bioinformatics has opportunities to enter either into the software domain or bioinformatics and computational biology domain. He or she needs to have an understanding of the in-silico or wet lab approaches to solve problems related to biology. As part of the curriculum a MTech student is expected to complete a project that is either research in nature or take a problem that requires novel approaches to solve. It is further expected that the MTech student in Bioinformatics has to come up with an original problem of their own and work independently with limited supervision from the guide.