In last one decade, a large number biotech institutes were set up. However, not much has been done for benchmarking of these institutes for their own relative assessment, for industry and for aspiring students. The mandate of Gunamay Majumdar Institute of Science & Technology (G MIST) is to provide competence in diverse fields of biotechnology including computational biology, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, computer aided drug design, nanobiotechnology, seed engineering and other cutting edge research areas