PROGRAM STRUCTURE

Duration

18 months (3 semesters).

(A) 1st Semester	: Nov-Apr (six months)
(B) 2nd Semester	: May-Oct (six months)
(C) Internships	: Nov-Apr (six months)

There is a 15-day break between each semester.

Subjects

I Semester

Introduction to computers and operating systems
Introduction to C
Internet/www in bioinformatics
Introduction to various bioinformatics software
Mathematics and statistics for biologists/bioinformatics
Foundation course in molecular/cell biology
Foundation course in chemistry
Basic biochemistry and biomolecular structures

II Semester

Introduction to PERL and Java
Databases and Data structures basics
Fundamentals and advances in microbiology
Biotechnology lab course
Methods for sequence analysis
Bioinformatics in drug design and discovery
Computational analysis of cellular signalling
Computational methods for gene structure prediction
Biomolecular modelling and simulations
Introduction to Microarrays
Intellectual property issues
Entrepreneurship in bio-related areas
Basics of clinical trials
In-house project

III Semester

Internships