The Faculty of Biological Sciences aims to provide a stimulating and diverse research environment of international standards where important and emerging areas of modern Biology, Biotechnology, and Medicine can be investigated at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels. On the recommendation of the Syndicate, the worthy Vice Chancellor has sanctioned 25 additional teaching positions and 44 support staff positions for the Faculty of Biological Sciences, Plant Sciences, Biotechnology, and the National Center for Bioinformatics (NCB). NCB was established in 2008 as a faculty-affiliated research center through funding provided by the Higher Education Commission and is housed in a 53,000 square feet purpose-built facility comprising eight research laboratories and two computational laboratories. Currently, NCB has been allocated eight academic and thirteen supporting staff positions and integrates expertise from the Department of Computer Sciences, other Departments of Biological Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics. NCB offers BS (4 years), M.Phil (2 years), and Ph.D. programs in Bioinformatics, with the primary goal of promoting high-quality training and research in this interdisciplinary field. Bioinformatics originated as a cross-disciplinary discipline in response to the growing need for computational approaches to address complex research problems in biomedicine, evolving significantly during the 1980s with the expansion of computing technologies, in the 1990s with the growth of the internet, and in the 2000s with the emergence of high-throughput biological technologies. Computational methods in biomedicine focus on the analysis, storage, manipulation, and interpretation of macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins, while wet lab validation of computationally predicted functional motifs and structural segments further enhances our understanding of complex cellular mechanisms.