Brief summary about BIF Centre:
The Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) was established in the Department of Zoology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati with the financial assistance from the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), New Delhi on 25th June 2010 for Bioinformatics Teaching and Research. The Centre has procured several hardwares and softwares, high speed internet and these infrastructure facilities were extended to all disciplines of Life Sciences in campus to carry out their research work and project works in the field of Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Computational Biology, Drug Discovery, Ethanopharmacology and Human Diseases etc. The Research person working at this centre import training to the Research Scholars and PG students in Bioinformatics teaching and research activities. Further the centre has been focusing research work in Molecular Modeling, Molecular Dynamics, Drug Targeting & Drug discovery, Genomics, Proteomics, Pharmacophore, Chemoinformatics, and NGS etc., this centre has the privilege of Conducting the 26th BTIS’net Annual Co-Ordinator’s Meeting and National conferences and Bioinformatics workshops and received lot of appreciation from Researches and scientist/academicians. The Centre has received “INCENTIVE AWARD FOR PUBLICATIONS” for Two years i.e. 2014 and 2016 from DBT, New Delhi for its contributions in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Research and Development. Data bases were developed for Cancer Genes and Markers, Alzheimer’s. New inhibitors were Identified against cancer, Human disease, Neurodegenerative disorders and Viral disease against genes/proteins. Essential gene identified as potential for drug development deposited in NCBI. One M.Phil., 19 Ph.D.’s awarded in pure Bioinformatics.