Also watch out for our online certificate programs in user-end bioinformatics:
We intend to bring our expertise in comparative analysis of bioinformatics resources from 'user-end bioinformatics' to fellow-professionals and students through online courses. The online certificate course from Shodhaka would be designed for providing training that aims at enabling the participants to take up and perform the specified tasks - independently. We are likely to begin such programs in May 2010. Please contact us (shodhaka@ibab.ac.in) for more details.

The user-end bioinformatics:
There are components of bio-informatics which every life science student/professional should be aware of today (see Acharya 2006*). However, there do not seem to be good training programs available in such specialized areas of bioinformatics which could be of practical use to life science researchers, students and other professionals. In fact, we are currently performing research in the comparative analysis of various bioinformatics resources, for specific applications.