The mission of the division is to curate and organize vast realms of biological data in an effective, meaningful and logical manner, developing statistical and/or bioinformatic tools and algorithms, utilizing/repurposing existing computational tools and to train machines to learn, curate, analyse and interpret biological data. The division shall establish national and international collaborations/consultancy where this division will function as the one-stop hub for diverse biological data analysis.
Thrust Areas
- Structural virology
- Protein folding and dynamics
- Structure driven drug discovery
- Molecular basis of peptide therapeutics
- Host-pathogen interaction at atomic level
- Population and evolutionary genetics
- Mathematical and statistical modelling in biology
- Biological data analysis/Biostatistics
- Bioinformatics/Computational biology
- Application of Python and R programming in biology