IICT CDAC Advanced Course in Bioinformatics (ACB) Admissions 2010 | Application Forms

May 25, 2010
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT)
Tarnaka
Hyderabad 500 607, A.P

Advanced Course in Bioinformatics

Advanced Course in Bioinformatics (ACB) jointly organised by IICT,CDAC & JNTU is a unique course in several aspects like

  • Excellent infrastructure facilities

  • Faculties from different reputed institutes of India

  • Guest lectures by eminent scientists from India and abroad

  • Interactions with eminent industrialists during workshop

  • Hands on for some modules of High Performance Computing Systems and  instrumentation techniques
The main objective of this course is to provide an insight  into the value of rapid access to scientific information for education and research purposes

Course Focus

The end of the 20th century has seen an explosion of information discovered from living organisms, especially in areas of molecular biology and genetics. The focus of bioinformatics is dealing with this flood of information, coming from academic, industry and government labs, and turning it into useful knowledge:

  • What are the critical sources of information for advancing fundamental knowledge in biology,medicine,  Biotechnology, pharmacology, agriculture and related biosciences?

  • What are the best computing methods to be applied to collect,organize, analyze and distribute this information to advance this research?

  • How quickly can these methods be integrated with bioscience research to meet demands of rapidly growing body of data and to speed the flow of knowledge?
Course Structure

The Advanced Course in Bioinformatics is a Six months fulltime course consisting of thirteen modules and an industry relevant project. The continuous evaluation is a part of the course structure where in the students day to day work would be evaluated based on the performance through assignments and tests. Daily session comprises of 3 hours of classroom lecture followed by 4 hours of lab work.

Course Modules

  • Orientation Modules (Biology and Computers)

  • C & Data Structure

  • PERL

  • DBMS

  • Numerical Methods and Optimization Techniques

  • Biostatistics

  • Advanced Computing Techniques
    (Neural / Evolutionary)

  • Data Mining

  • Parallel Computing

  • Genomics & Proteomics

  • Structural Biology

  • Protein Folding

  • Medical Informatics

  • Molecular Modeling

  • Sequence Analysis

  • Pharmaco Kinetics & Enzyme Kinetics

  • Instrumentation Techniques

  • Project Work

  • Hands on for some modules of High Performance  Computing Systems

Course Fee

The fee for the course is Rs.40,000/- for general candidates (18 seats) and Rs.50,000/-  for Industry sponsored candidates         (6 seats). The fee includes course material, computer facility & High Performance Computing facility. Hostel and Mess charges to be borne by the candidates separately. The selected candidates can stay in the IICT hostel, which is present inside the IICT campus as per the CSIR norms. Canteen facility is also available inside the campus.

Eligibility

  • B.Tech / B.E. in Computer Science / Chemical Technology / Biotechnology / Pharmacy

  • M.B.B.S / B.D.S / B.V.Sc / M.V.Sc

  • Post Graduation (M.Sc.,) in Computer Science / Biological Science (Any branch of Life Science) / Environmental Science / Biotechnology /Chemistry / Agricultural Science / Maths /Statistics / Physics

  • Good Knowledge in Bioinformatics,Which requires exposure in Biology, Computer Fundamentals and  Programming concepts in C Language
Selection Process

24 Candidates will be admitted into the Advanced Course in Bioinformatics out of which 6 seats are reserved for industry sponsored candidates. Candidates will be admitted only after qualifying the Common Entrance Test (CET). This CET is based on Computer Fundamentals, Biology Concepts and General Aptitude. On the basis of performance in the CET, the candidates shall be short listed in the order of merit. Industry sponsored candidates should also appear for the CET. Separate merit list will be maintained for Sponsored candidates.
CET Syllabus for Advanced Course in Bioinformatics :

  • Computer Fundamentals  (40 Marks)
    ( Computer Generations, Classification of Computers, Computer Architecture, Number Systems, Boolean algebra, Computer  Codes, Primary, Secondary and tertiary memory, I/O devices, Computer Software (Operating System, Compiler, Interpreter, Assembler, Linker, Loader etc
    Algorithms, Flowcharts, Computer Languages (machine, assembly and high level languages), Planning a computer program, the stages of the software development cycle, goals of programming, Introductory Concepts of C language (using simple data types, doing arithmetic, making decisions, iterations, using libraries, working with arrays, functional abstraction and Input/Output )

  • Biology Concepts (40 Marks)
    (Fundamentals of Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Enzyme Kinetics and basic aspects of Biochemistry

  • General Aptitude Test (20 Marks)
Important Dates
Application will be available on website : 13th May 2010
Last date for submission of Application : 7th July 2010
Date, Time and place of Entrance Test (CET) : 8thAugust 2010 (Sunday 10.30 AM to 12.30 PM IICT ZM School, IICT Campus, Habsiguda, Uppal Road., Hyderabad
Declaration of Results : 14th August 2010
Last Date for Payment of Fee : 31st August 2010
Course Commences on : 13th September 2010
Completion of Course : 14th March 2011

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1 Comments

  1. Anonymous06 August, 2010

    how can we know the pattern of the examination unless u provide with the model paper? please do consider it.

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