Ph. D in Bioinformatics

The study of PG course of bioinformatics includes the areas of development of new computational methods for studying organization and evolution of genes and genomes, computational approaches to macromolecular structure and dynamics and simulation, comparative evolutionary genomics, Drug design & discovery, pharmacogenomics, algorithm development, data base development, sequence analysis, data mining, Prediction and analysis of structure etc. Department of Bioinformatics, Alagappa University is now broadening its scope to include a Ph.D program in Bioinformatics. To further strengthen teaching and research environment in the department. The mission of the Bioinformatics Ph.D Program is to prepare scholers to reach the forefront of leadership in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology; and to integrate research and education on information technologies in biology, medicine, Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Fisheries Sciences.

Research Areas focused by faculties in the Department

• Molecular Modeling & Drug Designing
• Cheminformatics
• Pharmacoinformatics
• Quantum Pharmacology
• Pharmacogenomics & Molecular Evolution
• Algorithm & Data base Development
• Human Molecular Genetics and Gene Expression analysis
• Sequence Analysis
• Data and text Mining