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About the Department
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The Bioinformatics Cell of Dr GRDCS was
established in the year 2001 with an aim to advance
Bioinformatics and related researches for the benefit of mankind. The
Bioinformatics Cell grew rapidly and was converted into the Bioinformatics
Centre in May 2002 with its own
well-equipped laboratory. The Advanced Part time Diploma
course in Bioinformatics was started in the year 2002 for
the students of Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and
Computer Science. So far over 300 students have been conferred with
the Advanced Diploma Degree. Full time PG Diploma
Course in Bioinformatics was started in the year 2002-2003. Two
Year Post Graduate Course in Bioinformatics (M Sc Bioinformatics)
was started in the year 2004.
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Facilities
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2 Servers, 34
Clients
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Scanner,
Laser printer, CD Writer
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Ceiling
Mount
LCD
projectors, OHP, Laptop
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Use of
Internet Technology for teaching and research
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Online Tools
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Protein
Database
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Nucleotide
Database
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Structural
Database
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ExPASy
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SwissPort
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Offline
Tools
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Emboss
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ClustaIX
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BioEdit
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Chempro
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ChemSketch
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Modeller
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PyMol
and RasMol
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Arguslab
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BABEL16
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WinMopac
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Phylip
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Swiss-PDB-Viewer
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JACKAL
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Treeview
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GenScan
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MoU
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Course
Overview
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The Department offers a one-year Full time
Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics
for the students of Biosciences, Life Sciences and other related
fields.
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The Department offers a two-year
Postgraduate Degree in
Bioinformatics (M Sc
Bioinformatics)
consisting of four semesters, in
which the final semester is mainly for research work in the field
of Bioinformatics. The research areas include
Sequence Analysis, Molecular Modeling, Cheminformatics, Genomics, Proteomics and
Systems Biology.
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Unique Features of the Department
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The Bioinformatics laboratory
is well-equipped with the latest state-of-the-art facilities. The
Department concentrates on the continual development of
infrastructure. The Department believes in continuous and
consistent development of the members of faculty. In this regard,
the members of faculty are encouraged to pursue their higher
studies as well as deputed to the Colleges and Universities to
present papers during the seminars or conferences. They are also
encouraged to publish papers in reputed journals.
The Department over the
period of time, has acquired a
well-established computer-networking laboratory actively engaged in
research and teaching in various areas of Bioinformatics.
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Departmental
Activities
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The Department has organized over 75 events in
nine years of its existence in the form of workshops, seminars and
conferences for the betterment of the students, members of staff and
research scholars in the field of Bioinformatics and its related
fields. Invited Lectures are arranged frequently for the benefit of
the learning, educating and research community by the experts in the
field of Bioinformatics.
More than 70
Speakers from scores of
reputed Institutes such as CCMB-Hyderabad, University of Madras-Chennai,
Madurai Kamaraj
University-Madurai, IISc.-Bangalore,
Avinashilingam Deemed University-Coimbatore, Bharathiar
University-Coimbatore, Biomedical
Engineering Research Foundation-Salem, Genotypic
Technologies-Bangalore, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied
Biotechnology-Bangalore, Institute of Bioinformatics-Bangalore, etc
have visited the College to give away the lead lectures.
The Department of Bioinformatics pioneered a path
breaking first of its kind activity by hosting a participation centre
of Virtual International
Conference on Genomics and Bioinformatics. The
seminar was organized by the North Dakota
State
University, Fargo.
Dr G R Damodaran College of Science was the
first ever college to host such a centre in India, in which 42 major
universities and reputed institutions across the globe participated.
Nearly 1500 participants could interact during the conference. There
were 3 host locations in India of which Dr GRDCS
was one.
Of the 43 locations across the globe, 20 locations
were Access Grids and the remaining (including Dr GRDCS) were Real
Player Live Version Centers where the access for the conference was
provided through the Internet. The conference had various topics
pertaining to the recent trends in the field of Bioinformatics and
Genomics and the lead lectures were given by experts in those fields.
The experts were from various reputed Universities in and around the US.
The Department has hosted three such conferences in the years 2002,
2003 and 2004. As many as 100 participants from various colleges in
and around Coimbatore have
participated in the Conference.
The staff members and students are also involved
in conducting discussion session on various topics related to
Bioinformatics in Gyan Vani the FM Radio
Station in the College campus.
As many as 50 such discussions have taken place since 2001.
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Student-Centered
Teaching
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The Department believes in
Student-Centered Teaching and hence the students are encouraged to
present articles everyday by referring the magazines and share their
views on those articles. They are encouraged to participate in
National Level Seminars, Symposia, Workshops and Conferences and are
guided by the members of staff for presenting a paper or a poster.
The students have brought in more accolades and laurels to
themselves and to the Department as well.
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Members of
Staff in the Department
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Mr. B Thiagarajan, MCA, M Phil (CS), PGDBI, PGDIM,
PGDOM, (MBA), (PhD-CS)
Head and Assistant
Professor
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Ms
R Subhashini, M Sc (BI), M Phil (BI)
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Ms V S
Shafna Asmy,
M Sc (BI)
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Publications from the Department
Books
K Mani and N Vijayaraj,
Bioinformatics for Beginners, Kalaikathir Achchagam, Coimbatore
Thiagarajan B, Rajalakshmi
Pa, Computational Biology,
MJP Publishers, Chennai, April 2009.
Thiagarajan B, C For You, MJP
Publishers, Chennai, April 2010
Proceedings
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Bioinformatics for
Biologists – 2003 – DBT Sponsored National Level Workshop on conducted from 23-01-2003 to
01-02-2003 at Dr G R Damodaran College of
Science, Coimbatore
Abstracts
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Bioinformatics
for Biologists – 2004 – UGC Sponsored National Level
Seminar-cum-Workshop conducted from 22-03-2004 to 24-03-2004 at
Dr G R Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore
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Structural
Bioinformatics – A National
Level Seminar conducted from 18-08-2005 to 20-08-2005 at Dr G R Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore
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Recent Trends and Developments
in Bioinformatics – National Seminar
conducted from 11-08-2006 to 12-08-2006 at Dr G R Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore
Souvenir
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National Symposium on
Technology in Life Sciences
Genbix ’08 GENBIX–’08,
Department of Bioinformatics, Dr G R Damodaran
College of Science.
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Papers
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Research
Projects undertaken
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Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India has
sanctioned an amount of Rs. 12 Lakhs
for a project on A Complete
Genomic and Proteomic Study of Available Algal Genomes
to Dr K Mani
from 2005-2008.
Grants Received
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FOSSEE
(Free and Open Source Software) Project, IIT-Bombay, funded by the Ministry of
Human Resources Development, Govt. of India, through its National
Mission on Education through ICT granted an amount of Rs. 1 Lakh
to B Thiagarajan,
Head of the Department for conducting a National Workshop on Python as a Scientific
and Engineering Tool Kit during March 2010.
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