Bioinformatics Centre at ILS was started in May 2002, as a part of National Bioinformatics network under the programme, Biotechnology Information System (BTIS) established by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. This facility is providing bioinformatics support pertaining to the different research activity going on at ILS particularly functional genomics and proteomics. Institute also planning for the structure based research towards infectious disease biology. Apart from this, the total net working, web site management, mail server etc are fully depends on this facility.

 

Main Thrust Area

Functional Genomics & Proteomics
Sequence Analysis, Molecular Modeling and Simulation
Database and Software development in biotechnology

Softwares

The centre has a good collection of commercial and public domain softwares covering a wide range of applications like sequence and structure analysis, molecular modeling and simulations, structure prediction and drug design. The software’s available are:

Accelrys DS Modeling
Accelrys DS Gene
BioMed Catchy
SPSS
STATISTICA
GOLD for Docking Studies
Redhat Enterprise 5
Windows 2008 Server Enterprise Edition
Other programming and application softwares.

Training and Workshop:

Every year centre is organizing workshop & training programmes and it is an integral part of the centre