Biomedical Informatics Center of ICMR, NICED, Kolkata is organizing a workshop on 'Biological Knowledge Discovery And Bioinformatics' (BKDBio) -A Perspective from Disease Databases on June 29 & 30, 2009.

The workshop will mainly focus on biological disease databases and information mining. Each day there will be lectures and hands-on computer lab-sessions. The broad areas to be covered during various sessions include: Type and organization of biological data, information mining, genetic research and disease databases, etc. as well as hands-on experience on related software, case studies, actual real-time problem solving and open discussion session.

Professor Nitai Bhattacharyya, head of Crystallography and Molecular Biology Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) and Prof. Jayprakash Chakrabarti, Department of Theoretical Physics, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) will deliver lectures in this workshop.

Participation is free and mainly intended for people holding MBBS, M Pharma, MSc (Life sciences), M Tech (Life sciences) or B Tech (Life sciences) degrees who either work in genomics and proteomics or are interested in understanding how to incorporate such tools into their research.