IICB, a constituent national laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is engaged in interfacial research on chemical and biological sciences addressing biomedical problems of national importance as well as of global interest. There are six major research groups working in the areas of Cell Biology & Physiology, Chemistry, Molecular and Human Genetics, Structural Biology & Bioinformatics, Drug Development/Diagnostics, Infectious Diseases & Immunology, and Biotechnology. At BIC, IICB, various databases and software are being developed and applied for genome and proteome data mining, analysis of macromolecular composition/structures and elucidation of their interactions with bioactive molecules that may facilitate lead optimization for rational drug design.

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