4-day national bioinformatics workshop starts

A four-day long national bioinformatics workshop ‘Deep Bioinformatics Bootcamp Season 2’ kick-started today at the CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur. This year’s theme of the workshop is transcriptional regulation.

Dr Sudesh Kumar Yadav, director CSIR-IHBT, extended a warm welcome to all the participants and hoped that the workshop would be useful to them. Dr Sameer Sawant, Chief Scientist CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, gave the inaugural talk while the keynote speaker of the event was Usha Vijayraghavan, dean of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.

Hands-on training on Linux and Programming was imparted to the participants. A total of 34 participants from all over India are participating in the workshop.