Recent advances in diverse areas of life sciences such as high-throughput genomics, computational neuroscience, biopharma, medical and cellular imaging have led to the generation of massive data. This poses a huge challenge to researchers to handle such large data sets, analyse and interpret them. The advent of big data has impacted personalised medicine and health care services significantly. Efficient computing platforms and tools, sophisticated measurement technologies, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence have transformed life sciences and health care, enabling unprecedented interpretation of data and novel outcomes.
Realising the need for data scientists and data engineers to handle the challenges in
biological and medical data, the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology
(IBAB) is pleased to announce the launch of an innovative one - year PG Diploma
Programme in ‘Big Data Biology’ in collaboration with the International Institute of
Information Technology (IIIT-B), Bangalore and funded by the Department of
Biotechnology, Government of India. This interdisciplinary programme will focus on
Big Data in Life Sciences and will help explore the opportunities and challenges of
handling big data in health care and imaging and will impart engineering approaches
to problem solving in this emerging area.