History :
The Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) Center is established in the Cotton College in June, 2008 with the financial support from the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, New Delhi. The objective of the Centre is to provide infrastructural facility for utilization of Bioinformatics for understanding, study and development of Life science and different branches of Biological science. The target area for providing service is the in-house as well as outside and guest students, faculty and research scholars of Biological and allied branches of science.

Facilities :
The Center is equipped with two high capacity Broadband independent servers and connected simultaneously with both BSNL and Sify high-speed Broadband Internet connections as well as the Cotton College website and is routed to ten independent PC terminals accessible to individual users either independently or as batch activity. The setup is capable of functioning twenty four hours a day and is backed up with uninterrupted servo stabilized power supply system.

Activities :
Along with the primary function of providing Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, the Center also holds periodical workshop and training programmes for sensitization and exposure to Bioinformatics tools and sites to the interested newcomers in this field as well as holding and organizing advanced training schedules with interactive participation of National and Regional resource persons and practicing Bioinformatics under the target area.