The Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) was established in this university in the year 2006 with the financial support of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India under the Biotechnology Information System Network (BTISnet) programme. The primary objective of this facility is to promote biology teaching through bioinformatics (BTBI).

This is an University facility for Biocomputing, wherein School of Life Sciences is a nodal School in management of the facility.The aim of the facility is to provide Biocomputing infrastructure for researchers in various disciplines of Science and Technology for development of innovative methodologies, techniques, tools. Further, the facility augments research in the area of Systems Biology and Drug Discovery.

Facility supports the computational requirement of doctoral and PG students for carrying out thesis / project work. Further, students from various public funded institutions are selected periodically for training in the area of Drug Discovery.

The activities of the facility are coordinated by the Coordinating Committee with following members:

Coordinator

Prof. H.A.Nagarajaram

Dept. of Systems and Computational Biology

School of Life Sciences,UoHatics

Co-coordinators

Prof. Lalitha Guruprasad, SC

Dr. S. Durga Bhavani, SCIS

Dr. S. Rajagopal, PS, SLS 

Dr. K. Sreenivasulu, AS, SLS 

Dr. P. Anil Kumar, BC, SLS

Tools Developed :

Mycorrdb

Hire

Nemedplant

CPC

Orfin

Mycoindb

Closindb

maGUI

Objectives : 

Development of bioinformatics tools with applications in Drug Design and Systems Biology

Development of new databases based on the gene structure, transcription activity and function

Creation of integrated platform like HIV Information Resource.

Training maters and doctoral students in Drug design and systems biology