ICMR - NICED


ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases

आई सी एम आर - राष्ट्रीय कॉलरा और आंत्र रोग संस्थान

Department of Health Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
स्वास्थ्य अनुसंधान विभाग, स्वास्थ्य और परिवार कल्याण मंत्रालय, भारत सरकार
WHO Collaborating Centre For Research and Training On Diarrhoeal Diseases

Division

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field mainly involving molecular biology and genetics, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. Data intensive, large-scale biological problems are addressed from a computational point of view. With the availability of large number of genome sequences in public domain bioinformatics methods have been used to understand features, function, structure, or evolution of the genome sequences. Our thrust area is the analysis of genome sequences of human pathogens. Analysis of sequence data involves DNA and protein sequences for clues regarding function, identification of homologs, multiple sequence alignment, searching sequence patterns, and evolutionary analyses. We also perform analysis and prediction of protein structures (secondary and tertiary) and the associated problems regarding function, and structural alignment. Biological networks such as gene regulatory networks, metabolic pathways, and protein-protein interaction networks are usually modeled as graphs and graph theoretic approaches are used to solve associated problems such as construction and analysis of large-scale networks.