Education and R&D activities in the Bioinformatics Research Centre at IIIT

The Bioinformatics Research Center (BIRC) integrates research with education primarily through its postgraduate programs. Along with other research centers at IIIT, BIRC collaborates both institutionally as well as individually with scientists from several national and international educational and research organizations and from industrial R and D organizations.


Research focus:

•     Analysis of protein and DNA sequences for structural and functional annotations
•     Dynamical systems analysis of biological systems
•     Analysis genomic data for detection of genome-specific signatures
•     Ab-initio quantum mechanical studies on the stabilities of non WC base pairs in Nucleic acids.
•     Docking and molecular dynamics simulation studies on biomolecules
•     Biological language modeling (Language technology)
•     Simulation complex biological processes (Agent technology)
  

Development focus:

•     Development of a customizable integrated structural and functional bioinformatics workbench          (http://bioinformatics.iiit.net/ipsvac)
•     Development of software tools for data mining and data analysis
•     Development of specialist Databases
•     Development of immunological biosensors (Bio-electrochemistry)
•     Visualization of biological structures (Visual information technology)