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What is Bioinformatics?
Roughly, bioinformatics describes any use of computers to handle biological information. In practice the definition used by most people is narrower; bioinformatics to them is a synonym for "computational molecular biology"--- the use of computers to characterise the molecular components of living things.
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What is the difference between bioinformatics and medical informatics?
Biomedical Informatics is an emerging discipline that has been defined as the study, invention, and implementation of structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding and management of medical information. Medical informatics is more concerned with structures and algorithms for the manipulation of medical data, rather than with the data itself.
This suggests that one difference between the two fields lies with their approaches to the data; there are bioinformaticists interested in the theory behind the manipulation of that data and there are bioinformatics scientists concerned with the data itself and its biological implicatications. I think a good bioinformatics researcher should be interested in both of these aspects of the field.
Another distinction seems obvious to me. Medical informatics generally deals with "gross" data, that is information from super-cellular systems, right up to the population level, while bioinformatics tends to be concerned with information about cellular and biomolecular structures and systems.
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Can downloaded form from Internet be used for Course Registration ?
Application form (without course prospectus) can be downloaded from www.bioinformaticscentre.org. However in this case while submitting the application form one has to submit required additional amount of Rs 100/- (application form fee).
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Can I apply on the Photocopied application form ?
Application form (without course prospectus) can be Photocopied, however in this case while submitting the application form one has to submit required additonal amount of Rs 100/- (application form fee).
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Is there any late fee?
Enrolment is curently open.
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What is the course elligibility ?
As there are wide variety of courses available for different categories to opt, the course elligibility is Graduation in any discipline.
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Can you explain me about the Contact Classes?
Contact Classes ( are optional, to be held 2 months before the exam, on Sundays). Contact classes will be held in all metro cities and other important cities like state capitals.
Contact program fee can either be paid at the time of enrollment or later on.
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Do you accept payment by credit cards ?
Currently payment is accepted only in form of Bank Draft of Postal Orders drawn in favour of "BioInformatics Institute of India" payable at New Delhi / Delhi.
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I am currently enrolled in final year of my graduation program , am I elligible to enrol?
Those in final or pre final years of graduation can join the diploma program and take exams. However the Diploma will be released by the institute on production of the your graduation completion
certificates.
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Will I get the course material for the program?
BioInformatics Institute of India provides all the course material to the students enrolled for the diploma. There is no separate fee for the course material.
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What is the location of Examination / Contact Centres?
Examination/Contact classes will be held on an all India basis. The centres will be at all metro cities and other important cities as state capitals.
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How can International program participants appear for final exams?
International program participants (those making a payment in US Dollars) have either to submit additional assignments or appear in Online examinations on Internet.
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What is the Program fee for International Participants?
Application form and Prospectus Fee -- US Dollar 35 (or Equivalent In India Rupee)
Course Fee - US Dollar 400.
Additional Paper Fee -- US Dollar 50
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Can one enroll for the additional papers in the subsequent year?
One can enroll for additonal papers in the next year. However in this case one has to pay an additional yearly fee of Rs 750/- and for International applicants additional yearly per paper fee of USD 50 along with the additional paper fee.
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How can I get involved? I am a biologist
To a biologist I would say: take as many real computing courses as you can. Its important not just to learn a programming language, but also to learn the discipline of computing; to structure and document your work in a rigorous way. What courses you take might be directed by the kind of work you are interested in doing when you graduate---whether you see yourself supporting bioinformatics applications or building them. For the former you need all-round familiarity with the programs themselves and the hardware and software needed to run them---plus your existing understanding of biology. For the latter you need to learn a structured programming language and the principles of good program design---plus the ability to talk to and understand biologists.
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How can I get involved? I am a computational / quantitative scientist
One thing that I will emphasise is the simple value of doing some "proper" bioinformatics laboratory science work. I have sat through talk after talk where a bioinformatics "scientist" describes in great detail how his whizzy new application of a trendy mathematical tool offers a supposed insight into a bioinformatics problem. Nine times out of ten I know that this "solution" will never be so much as sneezed on by a practising biologist.
Quantitative scientists talk about their interest in studying some aspect of "God's mind". Biologists are interested in "Mother Nature's body". If you want to win Nature over you are going to have to meet her in the flesh. You are as likely to be useful to biologists working in isolation at the keyboard as you are to conceive with your clothes on. Desk-bound bioinformaticists have written code that has turned out to be popular with biologists, but almost always because they have collaborated with biologists.
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Please provide details of Bioinformatic centres run by Bioinformatics Institute of India?
Bioinformatics Institute of India, BII Noida ( Uttar Pradesh ) will like to state that BII , Noida has no branches, offices outside Noida, Uttar Pradesh and categorically state that any body representing Bioinformatics Institute of India or using the name Bioinformatics Institute of India is not associated with us. Any other body in Delhi, any where else in India except Noida is not represented by us and should not be linked with us.
For any further queries, Please E-mail us at info@bioinformaticscentre.org
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