Overview

The postgraduate course in Bioinformatics from Bharathiar University interdisciplinary area at the intersection of biological, computer and information sciences necessary to manage, process and understand large amounts of data, for instance from the sequencing of the human genome, or from large databases containing information about plants and animals for use in discovering and developing new drugs. 

Key facts

The Postgraduate students passed out from the department were easily absorbed in various research Institutions not only in India but also in Foreign Countries. Few of our students are pursuing their Doctoral programs in the countries US, UK, Germany, South Korea and Singapore. Bioinformatics division was upgraded to the level of research and offers M. Phil., and PhD. courses from the academic year 2005. It fosters research and developmental activities in major thrust areas like Nano Science and Drug delivery, Molecular modeling and Drug Design, Comparative Genomics, Computational Biology, Biodiversity Informatics, Data mining, Text mining, Database construction, Structural Biology, Health informatics and Biocomputing. The department is engaged in various innovative projects in the disciplines mentioned, supported by the various National and International agencies like DST (FIST), DBT (India), UGC (India), DBS (Sweden), NUS (Singapore) and ITTO (Japan).