Pondicherry University Bioinformatics Centre

The Centre for Bioinformatics in Pondicherry University was started initially as Sub Distributed Information Centre of the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (DBT) in 1991. The mandate of the Centre was to train manpower and conduct research in various areas of Bioinformatics. Recognizing the progress made by the Centre, DBT upgraded the Centre to a full Centre (DIC) level in 2002 The Centre was identified as a Centre of Excellence for Research and Training in the field of Bioinformatics by the Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi in 2007 and awarded a special grants. The Centre is offering an M.Sc., program in Bioinformatics in 2007 supported by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under the scheme of “Innovative Programme - Teaching & Research in Interdisciplinary and Emerging Areas”. To advance research in Bioinformatics, the Centre started Ph.D. Programme in 2009. The Centre started offering a Network M.Sc., Computational Biology teaching programme fully funded by DBT in collaboration with Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and Anna University, Chennai in 2010. This programme will be first of its kind in the country. This programme has been upgraded to M.Tech,. Computational Biology from 2014 and offered in collaboration with Anna University. Most of the past students were placed in various leading research institutions and industries. Many of them are perusing higher studies abroad.