About DCB at UOK in University of Kerala, Kariavattom North Campus, Kariavattom P.O., Thiruvananthapuram

The Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics formerly Centre for Bioinformatics was established by the University of Kerala in January 2005 to take up teaching, research and extension activities in bioinformatics and computational biology. This inter-disciplinary department focuses of the computational applications in biology, drawing knowledge from mathematics, statistics, computer science, information technology, biology and bio-technology. The department has currently a post-graduate programme (MSc. in Computational Biology) and a post-masters programme (MPhil. in Bioinformatics) in addition to research programmes leading to PhD. in Bioinformatics / Computational Biology. A distance education programme jointly with IGNOU is soon to be launched.

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