ABOUT THE INSTITUTE ELIGIBILITY National Workshop

Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Faculty, Students, Research Scholars, IT Professionals from (MANIT) is one of the first eight regional colleges of academic institutions, research organizations, Engineers from on engineering in the country to move into the direction of self Industries, Government / Semi-Government organisation with reliance based on industrial growth. MANIT has been specialisation in Life Sciences / Computer Sciences / BIOINFORMATICS imparting education to graduate and postgraduate students Engineering / Mathematics / Medical Sciences / Pharmacy. The in engineering since 1960 and is subsequently upgraded to number of seats are limited, preference will be given on first April 28-May 2, 2017 National Institute of Technology (NIT) in 2002.The institute cum- first serve, basis. under

has been named after great educationist, scholar and first Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility education minister of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. The Registration Fee institute is situated on a 650 acre green plateau of commanding a magnificent view of the new township, new (A) Research Scholars/Students: Rs.1500/- Department of Biotechnology,New assembly house and BHEL Township. The institute has (B) Faculty: Rs. 2000/- been a center of excellence for higher technical education (C) Industry Professionals: Rs. 4000/- Organised by in central India. The fee has to be paid in the form of DD drawn in favour of , the capital of and is “DIRECTOR, MANIT, Bhopal” payable at Bhopal. The fee commonly known as city of lakes. It is situated on the site of includes course material, lunch and refreshment. th an 11 century city, Bhojpal, founded by Raja Bhoj. Last date of receiving completed registration form is 15/04/2017.

Hundreds of Moghul age pieces of architecture, which We also encourage sending a copy of registration through email include Taj-ul-Masajid, Jama & & Shaukat at [email protected] with Subject line BIOINFO-2017, to Mahal, are some of the monumental buildings. Pachmarhi speed up the process. The participants sending the registration is the nearest hill station. It is well connected from different through email are requested to ensure that their DD and formal parts of the country by rail route and air. The institute is 9 registration form should reach here not later than 15/04/2017 in

kms away from Bhopal main railway station and 6 kms from any case. The registration process will be completed only if we Habibganj railway station. Bhopal airport is 16 kms away received the DD and registration form. from the Institute. The Bhopal temperatures during April We will confirm your selection through email latest by 20th April Coordinators and May vary from 30 - 350 C. 2017. The candidates who are not selected will be intimated

and their draft will be returned. COURSE COORDINATORS Dr. K.R.Pardasani

Dr. K.R.Pardasani Dr.Usha Chouhan

Mobile : 09425358308 Ph. No. : 0755-4051552 (O) Department of Mathematics, Bioinformatics & Computer

Dr. Usha Chouhan Applications

Mobile : 08989161687 Ph. No : 0755-4051555 (O) Maulana Azad National Institute of e-mail : [email protected] Technology, Bhopal-462003 (A deemed university) ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE

Dr. K.R.Pardasani & Dr. Usha Chouhan Telephone: 0755-2670416-17, 2670327-28Ext1486 Department of Mathematics, Bioinformatics&Computer Fax: 0755-2670562, 2670904 Applications Website: www.manit.ac.in MANIT, Bhopal – 462003 (M.P.)

 It creates new opportunities for Biomedical scientists PREAMBLE and Biotechnologists to use IT tools for design of new Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology biotech products like drugs etc. to meet the new Bioinformatics is interdisciplinary field challenges of food, energy and health due to growth of mainly involving molecular biology and genetics, computer population. Bhopal (M.P.) – 462003 science, mathematics and statistics. Data intensive, large- scale biological problems are addressed from a OBJECTIVES Registration Form computational point of view. The most common problems National Workshop on are modelling biological processes at the molecular level BIOINFORMATICS and making inferences from collected data. Bioinformatics  Create awareness among the participants about this new solution usually involves following steps: Collect statistics era of Bioinformatics and bring applied orientation among under from biological data. Build a computational model. Solve a them. Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility computational modelling problem. Test and evaluate a  To expose the utility, significance and importance of of computational algorithm. The ultimate goal of Bioinformatics. Department of Biotechnology,New Delhi Bioinformatics is to enable the discovery of new biological  To give exposure of various areas of Bioinformatics and insights as well as to create a global perspective from their applications. April 28-2 May, 2017 which unifying principles in Biology can be discerned. The  Exposure to Computational Modelling, Simulation, various  Please check:  Academic  Industry/Govt.  Student course is developed keeping in mind the requirements of tools and techniques in Bioinformatics. the current scenario of industry and to equip the students  Please check: Accommodation Required:  Yes  No with the latest in the stream of Bioinformatics. It creates Name: ______new opportunities for Biomedical Scientists and COURSE CONTENTS Biotechnologists to use IT tools for design of new biotech products like drugs etc. to meet the new challenges in the  Introduction to Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Designation: ______area of Biological sciences. Also it creates new  Biological and Bioinformatics databases and data mining opportunities for computer scientists and IT professionals  Introduction to Mathematical Modelling and Simulation Affiliation: ______for application of their skills and techniques in Biological  Sequence Analysis & Computational Models for Biological sciences / Biotechnology / Medical sciences. This course data will be useful for candidates who wish to pursue their career Mailing Address: ______ Phylogenetic analysis and Proteomics in the area of Bioinformatics. The course is designed to  Various Bioinformatics languages and tools related to Telephone No. (with STD code): ______provide exposure of basic skills and techniques of Bioinformatics which will be useful to the candidates from Sequence Analysis, Evolutionary analysis and proteomics. Fax: ______Biotechnology / Biological sciences / Mathematics /  Application of Modelling and Simulation to various types of Computer science / IT etc. for stepping into this new Biological data like Nucleotide (DNA & RNA) and Protein Email: ______emerging interdisciplinary area. Also it may be useful to research scholars & teachers of above mentioned areas for sequences, their structures and relative interactions etc. Specialisation: ______research, development and teaching on Bioinformatics.  Software tools like BLAST , FASTA, CLUSTALW, MEGA,

GENSCAN, PRIMER3, PHYLODENDRON, RASMOL, SIGNIFICANCE DD No. / Date: ______ One of the frontier and interdisciplinary area which SPDBV. Amount: ______involves applications of Mathematics, Computer

Science, IT etc. in Biological Sciences. RESOURCE PERSONS Bank: ______ Large volume of data has resulted from Biological experiments which need to be collected, described and (DD must be drawn in favour of “DIRECTOR, MANIT, organized in the form of databases/datawarehouses for Faculty from IITs, NITs, Premier Institutions, Industry and Bhopal” payable at Bhopal) analysis. Faculty from Host Institution  The huge volume of biological data poses new challenges and opportunities for the development of

computational models, Algorithms Tools and Softwares * Course material, lecture slides and other reference material Date: Signature of Applicant for analysis and discovering new hidden patterns and relationships in data to predict the dynamics of will be provided on CDs.

biological processes. (If required Xerox of registration form can be used)