Institutes offering undergraduate courses in Bioinformatics and job profile.

Institutes offering undergraduate courses in Bioinformatics and job profile.

I am a 10+2 student with subject combinations of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. I want to pursue a course in Bioinformatics at Bachelor’s level. Which are the best institutes in India offering this course at undergraduate level? What are the works one has to do in this field?

These are the Indian Institutes offering undergraduate courses in Bioinformatics:

• Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) in Bangalore
• Amity Insitute of Biotechnology
• Vellore Institute of Technology
• Tamil Nadu Agricultrual University
• Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Himachal Pradesh
• North Orissa University
• SASTRA (Deemed University), Thanjavur
• Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology

Mainly a carrier in bioinformatics is divided into two parts, developing software and using it. Many of the bioinformatics companies prefer persons from physics, maths or computer science background rather than biologists-turned programmers so it is advised that you plan your career accordingly. You will begin as a researcher in bioinformatics and the work will be mostly on computers algorithms and database management systems. You will have to generate new computer algorithms, databases and bioinformatics visualization tools. The work of research in bioinformatics and computational biology can include anything from the concept of the properties of a biological system into a mathematical or physical model, to the performance of new algorithms for data analyses, to the development of database and web tools to access them. You will be trained to use software tools that run on a variety of operating systems.