Workshop & Hands on Training on “Bioinformatics Approaches for Data Analysis and Research”

Workshop & Hands on Training on “Bioinformatics Approaches for Data Analysis and Research”. Department of studies in Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Pooja Bhagavat Memorial Mahajana Education Centre, Post Graduate Wing of SBRR Mahajana First Grade College(A) Metagalli, K.R.S Road, Mysuru-570016.

Department of studies in Biotechnology, School of Lifesciences, Pooja Bhagavat Memorial Mahajana Education Centre, Post Graduate wing of SBRR Mahajana First Grade College, Metagalli, K.R.S Road, Mysuru in collaboration with “Make Intern”, IIT Kharagpur.

At present Bioinformatics is a fast-growing field both at the level of academics and industry. The School of Life Sciences in collaboration with “Make Intern” IIT Kharagpur organized the workshop for the benefit of the students as a part of “Skill development.” This workshop aimed to impart the expertise in genome informatics in developing data analysis method, enabling to choose the right tool. The workshop included both talks and hands on training.

The ongoing expansion of our knowledge about the molecular basis of structure and function of diverse biological entities and processes presents us with both huge opportunities and challenges to improve our understanding of disease. To accomplish this, it is critical that we assemble and use all areas of knowledge and quantitative data in the analysis of normal and disease-affected samples and individuals. The field of bioinformatics and computational biology seeks to build data and knowledge on mining resources, tools, and analysis approaches that leverage the spectrum of biological facts, observations, and measurements, believing that by doing this, we can improve our understanding within all individual areas of patho-biology. An additional hope is both to gain our ability to identify and understand the specific causes, modifiers, and consequences of disease and to develop approaches to reverse engineer these in such a way as to recognize best treatments and preventions. Because the kinds of organized data, databases, and analysis tools now available to facilitate deeper understanding of disease biology may be unfamiliar to biologists. Bioinformatics is a rapidly evolving science that involves integrating gene-based information and computational technology to produce new knowledge for the benefit of life Science. Bioinformatics provides new opportunities as well as challenges for information and data processing in new generation aquaculture. Rapid technical advancements have opened a world of possibilities for using current genomics to improve aquaculture performance. Understanding the genes that govern economically relevant characteristics, necessitates a significant amount of additional research. The various dimensions of data sources include next-generation DNA sequencing, protein sequencing, RNA sequencing gene expression profiles, metabolic pathways, molecular markers, and so on. Appropriate bioinformatics tools are developed to mine the biologically relevant and commercially useful results. The students had performed, practiced the protein sequencing tools, nucleic acid sequencing tools such as BLAST,FASTA and molecular docking , the assignments and tests were given at the end of each day of workshop and students were highly satisfied,

Dr. Prashanth Kumar has 20+ years of academic and research experience and conferred with “BEST TEACHER “and “TEACHING & RESEARCH EXCELLENCE” awards. He has three Indian Patents published and working on more. He has also counseled more than 5000 plus students on career guidance and research projects and organized LAQSHYA – A Techno cultural youth festival for PUC students from 2014 -2020. Coordinated as PRO at Bangalore Press Club for media promotion of innovative projects. Speaker at many Career Utsavs and Edu fairs in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. Published 20+ research papers in Peer reviewed International (Scopus & SCI indexed) Journals. Sanctioned with VGST & KSCST research grants.

Target audience and No. of Participants/beneficiaries: 44

Workshop & Hands on Training on “Bioinformatics Approaches for Data Analysis and Research” 25-27th January, 2023