Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of multidisciplinary machine intelligence which has immense potential to provide solutions for classification problems in various fields of modern biology- healthcare, medicine, environment, agriculture, to name a few. The workshop is intended to train coordinators, bioinformatics centre staff, post-doctoral fellows and students in bioinformatics (preferably linked to DBT BTISNet centres), who wish to apply Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning in their research