Advancing India’s bioinformatics education and research: an assessment and outlook

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of study that uses computation to extract knowledge from biological data. It has become an integral component of today’s biological and biomedical sciences. Thus, considering its necessity, the Government of India through the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) laid the framework for developing bioinformatics infrastructure and human resource in 1986–1987. Over three decades, bioinformatics education...