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Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB); Biotech Park, Electronics City Phase I, Bengaluru 560 100; has invited applications for admission to (i) MSc in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and (ii) MSc in Big Data Biology programs for academic session 2025-27.
MSc programme in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary, dual specialization degree programme that builds competence in both Biotechnology and Computational Biology/ Bioinformatics. The Program provides hands on laboratory training in Experimental & Computational Biology and Computer programming and Research Projects in the frontier areas of Biotechnology and Computational sciences. The programme incorporates Genetic engineering, Cell and Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Fermentation, and downstream processing omics, next gen sequencing, big data analysis and so on during study.
The general objective of the MSc programme in ‘Big Data Biology’ is to introduce students to, and train them in, the highly interdisciplinary areas at the interface of Biology, Mathematics, Computing, Data Science and Information technology to create a future generation of biologists. There is strong focus to develop novel AI/ML algorithms to address real world life science challenges and emphasis on algorithmic thinking, programming principles and mathematical foundations to develop computational expertise to analyse life science and health care data. The students trained through this programme will help address the need for highly skilled manpower in this area and produce a new generation of computational biologists capable of exploring genomic information in medicine, analysing medical images using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and employing these techniques in diverse areas such as healthcare diagnostics and therapy.
Eligibility: Applicant should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in any branch of Biological Sciences, Physical/Chemical Sciences, Mathematical/Computational Sciences. Subject areas can be (but not limited to) Life sciences (Botany, Ecology, Environmental Biology, General Life Sciences, Genetics, Human Biology, Zoology), Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, any branch of Agriculture, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Veterinary Sciences etc; with degrees such as B.Agri, B.Pharm, B.Sc, B.Tech/BE, and B.VSc.
Applicant should have an aggregate score of at least 50% (45% for reserved category candidates) in the Bachelor’s degree examination. Those in the final semester of their Bachelor’s degree are eligible to apply, subject to meeting the eligibility criteria and submitting the original documents before the last date as announced by the institute. Those who have had a break in their education or have been employed for a few years are also eligible.
Admission Procedure: Admission to both Programs will be based on a common national level proctored online exam of 90 minutes duration carrying 100 marks, to be conducted by the institute on 25th May 2025. It will have two papers. Paper 1 will be General Aptitude (mandatory for all) having 25 questions and Paper 2 will be a core subject paper (choice based) having 50 questions. More details are given in the Notification link at https://www.ibab.ac.in/. Final selection will be based on the academic record and merit in the entrance examination.
Application: Applications can be submitted online at the link provided at the Program link at https://www.ibab.ac.in/ latest by 5th May 2025. Application fee is Rs. 700/- to be paid online.
Scholarship: A limited number of scholarships are available for deserving students.
For details, visit https://www.ibab.ac.in/
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