A programme on bioinformatics, sponsored by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, began at the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) on Monday. R. Soudamini, Director, Bio Informatics Centre, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, inaugurated the three-week programme, titled ‘The winter school on bioinformatics and its emerging dimensions in agriculture’. She stressed the need for integration of data developed at various research centres to facilitate proper understanding of behaviour of proteins.
– Special Correspondent