Brief History of the Centre:-
The Bioinformatics Centre (BIC) at IIIT Allahabad has been set up with the support of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology to create a state-of-art facility for big data analytics of large-scale genomics and proteomics data. The Bioinformatics Centre is equipped with a state-of-the-art infrastructure that includes an HPC Facility dedicated to quality training in big data analytics, development of various bioinformatics tools, molecular modeling, and MD-Simulation. The Centre focuses on organizing workshops, hands-on sessions, short-term courses, and webinars on various tools and techniques related to Bioinformatics with special emphasis on genomics and proteomics.

Approved Objectives of the Centre:-
1. Deployment of hardware for big data.
2. Development of various bioinformatics tools.
3. Find out new cancer therapeutics by network mining, Association studies, Systems modeling, Molecular modeling, and MD-Simulation. Also, In vitrovalidation by wet laboratory experiments. 4. Workshops/Hands-On sessions/Short-term courses/ Online Webinars on Scripting Languages, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Scala, etc. on a Quarterly basis. We are expecting a batch of 100 students/researchers to be trained with 4 training sessions.

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• Full Name:   Dr. Pritish Varadwaj
• Tel:   2219
• Email:   pritish@iiita.ac.in
• Location:   Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad Devghat, Jhalwa, Prayagraj-211015, UP
• Website:   https://bic.iiita.ac.in