EXCHANGING NOTES: M.C. Chandra Mouly, professor, ECE, B.L. Deekshitulu, former director, NRSA, and K.M. Prasad, chairman, IETE, Vijayawada, at a seminar in Vijayawada on Saturday. — PHOTO: RAJU. V.

VIJAYAWADA: Bio-informatics is a new scientific discipline that integrates biology, computer science and mathematics into a broad field, which will have a profound impact on all fields of biology, according to former director of National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) B. L. Deekshitulu.

Participating in a two-day south zone seminar on bio-informatics, organised by the Vijayawada Centre of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers here on Saturday, Mr. Deekshitulu said bio-informatics was the comprehensive application of probability and statistics in mathematics, along with biochemistry in science and a core set of problem-solving methods such as computer algorithms, to the understanding of living systems.

Explaining the artificial neural network, he said that the network was a replica of nervous system. "This has the connectivity with artificial intelligence and robotics to identify images, sense and take corrective measures automatically in handling human immunity and health system.

Artificial neural network is an engineering control of human mind," he added.

The seminar, apart from technical session, witnessed paper presentation and panel discussion in which students from V.R. Siddhartha College of Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering and GITAM, Visakhapatnam took part.

Reader in Central University of Hyderabad Bapi Raju, E.G. Rajan of Pentagram Research Private Limited, Electronics and Communication Engineering professor M.C. Chandra Mouli and K.V. Ramana of JNTU, Kakinada, took part in the seminar.

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