Jointly organized by IICT and C-DAC
OCTOBER 23, 2002 - FEBRUARY 05, 2003

Experienced bioinformaticians are limited in number, while the need for them in industry, academia and government projects has grown rapidly. The Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics (ADB), organized by Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad and C-DAC offered excellent faculty, hands on experience to Super Computing Facility, placement assistance, guest lectures by eminent scientists from India and abroad amongst other features. The main objective of this course was to provide an insight into the value of rapid access to scientific information for education and research purposes.

The Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics was a 3 months fulltime course consisting of thirteen modules and an industry relevant project. Continuous evaluation was a part of the course structure wherein the student's day-to-day work was evaluated based on the performance through assignments and tests. Daily session comprised 3 hours of classroom lecture followed by 4 hours of lab work. Course content included: Fundamentals of Biology & Biological Databases, Applications of Pharmako & Enzyme Kinetics, Molecular modeling, Proteomics & Genomics, Data mining techniques in Bioinformatics, Bio Statistics, Numerical Methods and Optimization techniques, OS Fundamentals & Unix, Programming Concepts in C, Object Oriented Programming Concepts & C++, Relational Database Management System, Web Technologies (HTML, XML, Perl), Parallel Computing Techniques, and Data Mining Techniques. The reference book for this course was "Computer Fundamentals" by Dr. P.K.Sinha.

The course was attended by graduates in Computer Engineering/Chemical Engineering, and Post graduation in Computers/Biology/Environmental Science/Biotechnology/Chemistry/Agricultural Science, with a good knowledge base in Bioinformatics, which requires exposure to concepts on Biology, Computer fundamentals and Programming Concepts.

Special features of the course were:

• Access to state of the art computing facilities
• Access to Super Computer PARAM 10000
• Unique curriculum
• Resourceful faculty
• Extensive hands on sessions
• Well-equipped library
• Creative work environment
• Guest Lectures from R&D organizations of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
• One week visit to C-DAC, Pune to get hands on experience on High Performance Computers in the areas of genomics and sequence analysis.

Students were given certificates on successful completion of the course.

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