Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an emerging scientific discipline & highly remunerative career options. The career prospect in Bioinformatics has been gradually increasing with the use of information technology in the area of molecular biology. Bioinformatics degree holder can work in all sectors of pharmaceutical, biomedical organizations, biotechnology, in research institutions, hospital, industry and even NGOs. You can work in private & government hospitals and as a teacher in private and public colleges. They can also be employed in scientific research institutes of private & public sector. Most of these professionals are working in pharmaceutical and Biotech companies. You can also find employment in manufacturing industries of various biomedical products. Those students have a degree in Bioinformatics, they can be a part of the leading IT Companies. In IT companies, you can work as a Bio-informationists. Today, even RPOs and KPOs are also employed Bioinformaticians. Abroad, the job opportunities are good in foreign firms and laboratories. Specific career areas which fall within the scope of this field are database design & maintenance, proteomics, pharmacology, sequence assembly & analysis, informatics developer, bioanalytics, clinical pharmacologist, etc.
Job Profiles:
Bioinformatics Software Developer
Research Scientist/ Associate
Network Administrator / Analyst
Computational Biologist
Database Programmer
Science Technician
Content Editor
Pharmacogenomics
Proteomic
Professor.
Top recruiters are:-
Wipro
Reliance
Satyam
Tata Consultancy Services
IBM Life Sciences
Ranbaxy
Silicon Genetics and Tessella
GVK Biosciences
Torrent Pharmaceuticals
Biscon
Strand Life Sciences.
You can expect a handsome salary if you have a degree in bioinformatics. The starting salary of a degree holder in private companies is Rs 2 lakhs to 3 lakhs per annum. On the basis of the skills, work profile & experience, your salary arise approx. Rs 6 lakhs to Rs. 7 lakhs per year. In the government sector (Research Institute & Hospital), your salary is fixed approximately Rs.3 lakhs to Rs. 4 lakhs per annum. In foreign countries, you can earn a salary in between $40,000 and $65,000.

Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to get the information that's stored in certain types of biological data. Bioinformatics provides central, globally accessible databases that enable scientists to submit, search and analyse information. It offers analysis software for data studies and comparisons and provides tools for modelling, visualizing, exploring and interpreting data. Main goal is to convert multitude of complex data into useful information and knowledge. What is the scope? Current biological and medical labs use methods that produce extremely large data sets, which cannot be analyzed by hand - for instance sequencing human genomes. Thus modern biological and medical research and development cannot be done without bioinformatics. Future applications in biology, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, medicine, and agriculture. In addition, bioinformatics plays an important role in biomedical research. Research work in the area of genetic diseases and medical genomics is rapidly increasing and the future of personalized medicine depends on bioinformatics approaches.

The admissions will happen under two streams.
Stream 1: 70% of seats through JEE (Mains) score and +2 score.
25% and 75% of weightage will be given to JEE score and +2 marks under this stream. Your +2 marks will be normalized with that of the first rank student's marks in your board. You will be ranked with respect to the combined score of your JEE (Mains) and +2 marks. Your rank will be determined by the combined scores of all other applicants. Stream 2: 30% of seats through +2 marks. You will be ranked according to the normalized percentage of your +2 marks with other applicants under this stream.
Admissions under the two streams will happen according to your rank. You can apply under both the streams.