The
Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) was established in the college 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). It provides services to the host faculty and
other neighboring institutions of higher education in terms of Internet
connectivity, retrieval of online and offline biological databases,
bioinformatics software and tools for facilitating biological research
particularly in the area of sequence and phylogenetic analysis, database
development, molecular modeling and drug design, etc. It also periodically
organizes hands-on trainings on various aspects of application of bioinformatics
tools and molecular techniques in biological research.