Department of Bioinformatics
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
The Department of Bioinformatics was established in 2004 with financial assistance from UGC, under the Innovative Program scheme. Ours is the first institution to introduce Bioinformatics in this region. Chandigarh being a bioactive area, it is strategically located central focal point meeting the demands of three states. The department was set up with an aim for promotion and growth of Bioinformatics. The Department has been conceived with the ambitious objective of developing professional expertise and skilled manpower in Bioinformatics and related areas. The college is an apex institute in the area of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and the aim and vision of the department of Bioinformatics is to provide a platform for students to gain an insight into Bioinformatics sciences and to utilize their skills in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Biomedical and Health care, R and D organization, Pharmaceutical and Software Development Companies.
Presently our Department is offering different courses in Bioinformatics at UG as well as PG level. The faculty is highly qualified and actively engaged in research activities. The Department is equipped with one wet lab, two Computer Labs with Internet facility and one Bioinformatics research facility.
The department has an intent to organize extension lectures, to promote the use of latest teaching aids to inculcate scientific temperament and to hold other activities to provide students with an opportunity for interaction and career upliftment.
COURSE OFFERED
Courses Offered |
Duration |
Seats |
Academic Qualification |
Mode of admission |
B.Sc. (Hons.) Bioinformatics |
3 year(6 semester system) |
30 |
10+2 Science |
Merit Basis (Best of three science subjects) |
M.Sc. Bioinformatics |
2 year(4 semester system |
40 |
A Bachelor’s degree in Science (General or Honours) with at least 50% marks (45% for SC/ST/BC category). |
Through C.E.T by P.U.
+ Merit (50% CET + 50% B.Sc.) |
Faculty
Name & Email |
No. of Publications with ISSN number |
No. of Books with ISBN number |
Oral/
poster present-
ation |
Conferences/
seminar
attended |
Workshop attended |
Refresher/
Orientation courses /FDP attended |
Area of Specialization |
Mr. Varinder Kumar
B.sc, M.Sc
varinder@ggdsd.ac.in |
9 |
01 |
6 |
13 |
09 |
01 RC
01 OC
03FDP |
Molecular Modelling & PERL Programming |
Ms. Chander Jyoti
B.sc, M.Sc
chander.jyoti@ggdsd.ac.in |
08 |
— |
04 |
10 |
05 |
6 FDP |
Genomic and Transcriptomic data analysis |
Dr. Ruchi Sachdeva
B.sc, M.Sc, Ph.D
Ruchi.sachdeva@ggdsd.ac.in |
06 |
— |
01 |
08 |
00 |
1 FDP |
Drug Designing, System biology & Genome Wide Studies |
Mr. Sandeep
B.sc, M.Sc
sandeep.saini@ggdsd.ac.in |
08 |
— |
05 |
13 |
09 |
7 FDP |
Non-Coding RNA, Peptide design and Machine learning |
Dr. Navpreet Kaur
B.sc, M.Sc, Ph.D
navpreet.kaur@ggdsd.ac.in |
14 |
1 Book Chapter |
07 |
10 |
03 |
1 FDP |
Biochemistry, Nanotechnology, Sensors & Immunology |
Ms. Yukti Sharma
B.sc, M.Sc
yukti.sharma@ggdsd.ac.in |
— |
— |
— |
02 |
— |
— |
Molecular Biology |
Ms. Sakshi Gupta
B.sc, M.Sc
sakshi.gupta@ggdsd.ac.in |
03 |
06 |
02 |
07 |
02 |
— |
Molecular Genetics, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology |
Ms. Sheetal Sharma
B.sc, M.Sc
sheetal.sharma1@ggdsd.ac.in |
04 |
— |
03 |
09 |
02 |
02 FDP |
Programming Languages, DBMS, Sybase, IoT &Recommender System |
Ms. Meenakshi Kondal
B.sc, M.Sc
meenakshi.kondal@ggdsd.ac.in |
03 |
— |
03 |
06 |
04 |
03 FDP |
Software Engineering |
List of Ongoing/Completed Research Projects By the Faculty
Name of the PI/ Co-PI |
Title of the Project |
Duration |
Funding Agency |
Mr. Varinder Kumar |
Application of Bioinformatics in Detecting Molecular evolution and Phylogeny of snake venom protein of Indian Venomous Species |
02 year |
UGC- New Delhi |
INFRASTRUCTURE
Core Facility |
Allied Facilities |
UG Bioinformatics Lab |
Microbiology Lab |
PG Bioinformatics Lab |
Biochemistry Lab |
Bioinformatics Research Lab |
Genomics & Proteomics Lab |
Molecular Biology Lab |
Physics Lab |
Laminar Room |
Chemistry Lab |
UPS Rooms |
Digital Library |
Seminar Hall |
Centralized Instrumentation Lab |
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Information Technology Lab |
Equipments
A number of Basic Instruments are available for the carrying out wet lab experiments
- UV-Visible Spectrophotometer
- Blotting Apparatus
- Gel Documentation System
- Electrophoresis Apparatus
- Incubators
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Autoclave
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Laminar Flow Cabinet
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Refrigerators
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Phase Contrast Microscope
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Colony Counter Digital
- Micro centrifuge
- pH Meter
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Colorimeter
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Electronic Balance
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Vortex
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Filtration Assembly
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Hot Plate, Incubator
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Magnetic Stirrer
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Freezer (-200 C)
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Microwave Oven
COMPUTING FACILITIES
Two Computer Labs with a server, required software and Internet Facility has been set up in the Department. Besides that central computing facilities are also available in the Advanced IT Block as well as Network Resource Centre within the campus itself, so that the students can access and browse through the latest Literature.
HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE
Hardware |
Quantity |
Lenovo Desktop All in One (Lenovo intel i-7, 3.20 GHz) |
30 |
Lenovo Desktops (Lenovo intel i-5, 2.50 GHz) |
16 |
Lenovo Desktops (Lenovo intel i-5, 2.90 GHz) |
10 |
HP Laptop (P-IV, 1.60 GHz) |
02 |
DELL Laptop (i3) |
01 |
Sony LCD Projector |
01 |
Smart Board with Projector |
01 |
Over Head Projector |
01 |
UPS 20 kVA |
01 |
HP Laser Printer (1020) |
02 |
Cannon Laser Printer (1005 & D520) |
02 |
Scanner (Scanjet) |
01 |
Bioinformatics Software |
DNASTAR (Sequence & Structure Analysis & Annotation Package) |
Discovery Studio 2.1 (Drug Designing and Lead optimization Suit) |
Gaussian09 & Gauss View05 (Electronic Structure Modelling Tool) |
Molecular Modelling Tool – HYPERCHEM8.0 |
Statistical Analysis Tool – MINITAB 16.0 |
Sequence Analysis, Phylogenetic Analysis and Other Analytical Tools: |
Accery’s GCG Package with 300 GB database installed locally on the server |
Operating System |
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Windows XP and 7, 10 |
Fedora Core/Red Hat |
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MS Office |
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MS Office 2010 |
MS Office XP & 2007 |
MS Office 2003 Server |
Antivirus |
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Norton 360 Total Security |
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Other Tools & Software’s |
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Oracle 9i |
Visual Studio 7.0 |
Corel Draw |
Macromedia Studio 8.0, MX |
Dream weaver 8.0 |
Fireworks 8.0 |
C, Turbo C |
Active Perl, BioPerl |
FoxPro, XML |
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 |
Fox IT Reader |
Adobe Acrobat 7.0 |
Department also has the rich collection of free bioinformatics software like Ligbuilder, Autodock, Modeller, MEGA, Hammer, Glimmer, Mummer, TreeView, Babel 2.0.0, Dragon, Chimara 5-0.1.3- beta, PhylPro, Phylip, PyMold, RasMol, SPDBViewer, Hex, Sequencer 4.6 Demo, Emboss 0.7 & 0.5, ISIS CHIME Draw 24, Ecell 3.1.103, Vcell, Gepasi etc.
WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
Topic |
Duration & Date |
No. of Participants |
Workshop on Next Generation Sequence Data Analysis and Structural Bioinformatics |
Five Days
February 18-22, 2015 |
35 |
LECTURES ORGANIZED
Topic of Talk |
Date(s) |
Next Generation Sequencing: Future Perspective |
18.02.2015 |
Biology Goes Digital: New Science of Genomics
Hand-on Session on Annotation & Analysis of Microbial Genome |
18.02.2015 |
Ion-Torrent: Next Generation Sequencing & Software for Data Analysis |
18.02.2015 |
Hands-on Session on Informatics for Transcriptome Analysis from Beginning to End |
19.02.2015 |
Bioinformatics: Potato Research & Development |
19.02.2015 |
Lecture on Network Biology using Cytoscape |
20.02.2015 |
Analysis of Nucleotide Sequence: A Bioinformatics Approach |
20.02.2015 |
Structure Based Drug Designing & Molecular Modelling |
21.02.2015
22.02.2015 |
Hands-on session on Modeller, AutoDock & Post Docking Tools |
21.02.2015
22.02.2015 |
NGS Down Streaming
Hands-on session on Sequence Assembly |
21.02.2015 |
DNA Sequencing: The Next Generation
NGS Data Analysis: An Overview |
21.02.2015
22.02.2015 |
Lecture Series on Molecular Modeling and Pharmacoinformatics |
March – April, 2015 |
LECTURES ORGANIZED
Topic of Talk |
Date(s) |
Role of bioinformatics in drug discovery process and pharmaceutical industry |
15.10.2013 |
Usage of proteomics analysis tools at Expert Protein Analysis System (ExPASy) |
16.10.2013 |
– Importance of analysis of 3D structure proteins in bioscience research
– Use of CHIMERA, a molecular modeling tool |
19.10.2013 |
Bioinformatics: Its Prospects and Applications |
22.01.2014 |
Microarray – Chip Technology |
06.02.2014 |
JAVA & PHP for Bioinformatics Data Management and Analysis |
Feb. 14-15, 2014 |
LECTURES ORGANIZED
Topic of Talk |
Date(s) |
Series of lectures on the concepts of Molecular Modeling and Pharmacoinformatics |
March, 2013 |
WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
Topic |
Duration & Date |
No. of Participants |
Workshop on “Bioinformatics: Applications and Challenges” |
One Day
21st January, 2012 |
75 |
Workshop on JAVA & PHP for Bioinformatics Data Analysis and Management |
One Day
21st January, 2012 |
30 |
LECTURES ORGANIZED
Topic of Talk |
Date(s) |
Series of lectures on the concepts of Molecular Modeling and Pharmacoinformatics |
November, 2011 to March, 2012 |
Immunology and Cell Biology |
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Hands-on Workshop on Genome Annotation, Data warehousing & Data Mining and Clinical Bioinformatics |
21st January, 2012 |
Application of statistics in Biomedical Sciences |
22nd February, 2012 |
Demonstration of SPSS statistical tool in the area of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Sciences |
22nd February, 2012 |
WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
Topic |
Duration & Date |
No. of Participants |
Hands-on Workshop on Application of Programming Languages in Bioinformatics |
One Day
11th February, 2011 |
35 |
SEMINARS ORGANIZED
Topic |
Duration & Date |
No. of Participants |
Seminar on Application of Statistics in Biomedical Sciences |
One Day
Feb. 24th, 2011 |
124 |
LECTURES ORGANIZED
Topic of Talk |
Date(s) |
Artificial neural network & pharmacogenomics |
10.02.2011 |
Hands-on Workshop on Application of Programming Languages in Bioinformatics |
11.02.2011 |
Application of Statistics in Biomedical Sciences |
24.02.2011 |
BIORHYTHM – SCIENCE FEST ORGANIZED
Topic |
Level |
Duration & Date |
Collaborating Departments |
No. of Participants |
Science Fest BioRhythm 2011 – The New Dimension |
Inter-College |
One Day
Feb 26th, 2011 |
– |
200 |
Science Fest BioRhythm 2013 – The New Dimension |
Inter-College &
University |
One Day
Feb. 2nd, 2013 |
Botany,
Physics,
Zoology and
Chemistry |
250 |
Science Fest BioRhythm 2014 – The New Dimension |
North Region |
One Day
Feb. 11th, 2014 |
Biotechnology,
Biochemistry,
Microbiology and
Botany |
417 |
SOFTWARE TOOLS DEVELOPED BY THE STUDENTS
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Phosphene – Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Tool
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BIOVB – A Sequence Analysis Tool
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AVERO – Patient Record Management System
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ANALYTICA – Tool for analysis of Statistical, Mathematical and Biological Data
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SAN (Search Analyze Navigate) – A web based nucleotide and protein sequence analysis tool.
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SAT – Sequence Analysis Tool for biological sequences
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Sequa Analyzer – A tool for nucleotide and protein sequence analysis
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ProLoc – Protein Localization Prediction Tool
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RNA PRE – RNA Prediction Tool

Phosphenes: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Tool |

BioVB: Sequence Analysis Tool |

AVERO: Patient Record Management System |

ANALYTICA: Tool for analysis of Statistical, Mathematical and Biological Data |

SAN: A web based nucleotide and protein sequence analysis tool |

ASPPred: Antisepsis Peptide Prediction Server |