About BIF Center
Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) was established in Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on September 22, 2006, under BITSnet scheme funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Since its inception, the centre as an additional offshoot of the Department has made significant progress through the support of DBT and the available infrastructure including human resources. The objective of the centre is the promotion of Biology ‘Teaching and Research’ through Bioinformatics scheme of BITSnet, and undertaking exhaustive steps for understanding the deeper structures through computational modeling.
The center has been instrumental to bridge the Biologist-Computational interface gap and undertake exhaustive steps for understanding the deeper structures through computational modeling. Moreover, the department/BIF center is actively publishing high impact factor research papers in the area of Bioinformatics where five faculty members of the center covering all cadre viz. Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor are involved as supervisors as well as active researchers. The department offers semester-based courses M.Phil./Ph.D. in Computer Science/Bioinformatics, M.Sc. Bioinformatics program in addition to MCA and PGDCA courses through a well-designed industry oriented as well as research oriented curriculum.
Area of specialization: Following are envisages as the areas of specializations, through curriculum and research studies:
a) Applications of A.I. Techniques in Life Sciences and Medical Sciences
b) Computational Biology
b) Biological Data Mining
c) Systems Biology
d) Modeling and Simulation
Bioinformatics infrastructure available at center:
Software
GOLD Suite (GOLD, GoldMine and Hermes), 1 GOLD FlexLM licence server, 4 Users.
List of faculty members in the Center can be seen at link:
http://jmi.ac.in/computerscience/faculty-members