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Dr. Angshuman Bagchi

Coordinator

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Brief History of the Centre:-
The DBT funded Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) Center at University of Kalyani has been providing scientific supports to the researchers throughout the world. The Center has created a commendable platform to both research and education to the faculty members, research scholars and students of all the life science departments of this University as well as nearby institutes. The center is strengthened with some powerful workstations and various scientific commercial software packages, as well as many free-for-academics scientific programs. Workshops and Training Programs are being conducted regularly from the Center. More than 400 students have so far been trained through these endeavours. By the assessment of DBT, the BIF Center of University of Kalyani secured the 5th position among all the BIF Centers present in Universities at 29th BTISnet Coordinators Meet in 2018. Till now, more than ten research scholars have completed their scientific works and received their Ph.D degrees by using the facilities of this center. The Center caters to the needs of the students outside the University, both at the national and International levels.

Approved Objectives of the Centre:-
1. To create awareness among Biological Science disciplines and to encourage them for interdisciplinary research. Hence, the first objective is to provide a well developed Bioinformatics platform for the purpose of both research and teaching.
2. To work on biological data acquisition, creation and development of programs and databases needed by the users.
3. Develop more human resources in this subject.
4. To develop a Bioinformatics hub at Kalyani by sharing our resources.