“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, require creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” – Albert Einstein

There is a paradigm shift in biological research to use computers, software tools and computational models in a large scale. Using informatics in interpreting biological data holds great importance and is presently emerging as a major element in contemporary biology and biomedical research. Bioinformatics Centre (BIC) of Bose Institute which was established with such a vision is approaching 25^th year of its foundation in 1988 as a DIC. In 2004, it was recognized as a Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. To celebrate its past achievements and to set its vision for future, the department is organizing a International Conference entitled “Conference on Informatics & Integrative Biology (CIIB-2014)” to be held in Kolkata during 17^th-19^th December 2014.

This conference will provide the platform for scientists/experts from academia and industry nationwide to catalyze the networking between the branches of computational biology and bioinformatics and to facilitate the amalgamation of the complementary scientific efforts in the academia and industry to achieve common scientific goals. This three-day event will feature lectures from the leading academic/industry experts and poster sessions for budding researchers.

• Structural Bioinformatics
• Regulatory Genomics & Systems Biology
• Evolutionary Bioinformatics
• Macromolecular Interactions
• Cheminformatics

Major Sponsors: DST, ICMR, DBT, CSIR

Group photo of CIIB 2011