The facility is housed at
the Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences building,
IIT Madras. This building also houses the Department of
Biotechnology, IIT Madras, who constitute the primary
users of the facility on campus. The facility shares space
with the Departmental Computer Facility, Biotechnology
dept, IIT Madras.
The BIF caters to the computational and bioinformatics
needs of the BTech and MTech students, research scholars
and other research staff including project assistants
and post doctoral associates of the Biotechnology Department,
IIT Madras numbering around 350 members. Other users include
several students from colleges and universities all over
India who undergo short term training programs in the
Biotechnology department.
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