National Workshop on Computational Models, Tools & Techniques in Bioinformatics

National Workshop on Computational Models, Tools & Techniques in Bioinformatics
November 21-25, 2011
Organized by
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology
Surat

Preamble :
Bioinformatics involves use of IT tools to describe, analyze and predict the dynamics of various biological process. The ultimate goal of bioinformatics is to enable the discovery of new biological insights as well as to create a global perspective from which unifying principles of biology can be discerned. The workshop is
developed keeping in mind the requirements of the current scenario of the industry and to equip the students with the latest in the stream of Bioinformatics. It creates new opportunities for Biomedical Scientists and Biotechnologists to use IT tools for new design of new biotech products like drugs etc to meet the new challenges in the area of Biological sciences. Also it creates new opportunities for computer scientists and IT professionals for application of their skills and techniques in Biological Sciences /Biotechnology/Medical Sciences. This workshop will be useful for candidates who wish to purusue  their career in the area of Bioinformatics. The workshop is designed to provide exposure of basic skills and techniques of Bioinformatics which will be useful to the candidates from Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical Sciences/Microbiology/Biochemistry/Biological Sciences/IT etc; for stepping into this new emerging interdisciplinary area. Also it may be useful to research scholars and teachers of above mentioned areas for research, development and teaching on Bioinformatics.
Significance :

• One of the frontier and interdisciplinary area which evolves applications of Mathematics, Computer Science, IT etc in Biological Sciences
• Large volume of data has resumed from Biological experiments which need to be collected, described and organized in the form of databases warehouses for analysis
• The huge volume of biological data posses new challenges and opportunities for the development of computational models, algorithm, tools and software's for analyisis and discovering new hidden patterns and relationships in data to predict the dynamics of biological processes.
• It creates new opportunities for Biomedical scientists and Biotechnologists to use IT tools for design of new biotech products like drugs etc to meet the new challenges of food energy and health due to growth of population.

Objective :

• Create awareness among the participants about new areas of Bioinformatics and bring applied orientation among them
• To expose the utility, significance and importance of Bioinformatics
• To give exposure to various areas of Bioinformatics and their application
• Exposure to computational modeling, simulation, various tools and techniques in Bioinformatics

Topics to be covered :

• Introduction to Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology
• Biological and Bioinformatics database and data mining
• Introduction to mathematical modeling and simulation
• Sequence analysis and computational models for biological data
• Phylogenetic analysis and proteomics
• Various bioinformatics languages and tools related to sequence analysis, evolutionary analyis and proteomics
• Application of modeing and simulation to various types of biological data like nucleotide and protein sequences, the structures and relative interactions etc
• Software tools like BLAST, FASTA, CLUSTALW, GENSCAN , PRIMER3 ,PHYLODENDRON,RASMOL

Contact :
Co-ordinator
Dr Neeru Adlakha
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics & Humanities
Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of technology
Surat. Telephone : 0261-2201785
Deadline : 10.11.2011
 Notification