About BIC
Sub Distributed Information Centre (SDIC) at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana was sanctioned by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India in November 1998 as a part of Biotechnology Information System (BTISNET) Network to function as a Computerized Information Base in the fields related to Agricultural Biotechnology. The program was initially aimed to establish Computer and Communication Infrastructure Facilities for promoting biotechnology based R & D. The Bioinformatics Centre at PAU became functional in March 2001.
In July 2021, BIC start its 2nd Phase with financial support form Dept. of Biotechnology, GOI, New Delhi. Now, the centre focus is on the establishment Next Generation Data Analysis facility and develop automatic pipelines and tool to fasten the research in the area of Agricultural Genomics. In the 2ndPhase, our aim is to exvacate the biological information and utilize it in the crop improvement programme by developing new databases and tools.
Area of specialisation
- Applications of Bioinfomatics in Agriculture
- Mining genes of economic importance from wild relatives of crop plants
- Genome assembly and developing physical map
- RNAseq data analysis
- Comparative genomics analysis
- Phylogenetic and Evolutionary relationship studies
- Protein Structure Modeling and Ligand Protein interaction studies
- Database development
Objectives
Current Area of Research
Inter Institutional Collaboration
- The John Innes Centre (JIC) Norwich, Norfolk, England
- Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States
- National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB)
- University of Delhi, South Campus. new Delhi
- Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut
- The Agharkar Research Institute is located in Pune, Maharashtra
- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, India
- Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack
- Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad
Infrastructure Facility
Equipment |
Quantity |
Funding |
Desktop Computer System (PC) |
28 |
DBT |
Workstation: HCL Infiniti Global Line 2700 SO, HP ProLiant ML350 Gen9 E5-2609v3 |
2 |
DBT |
Workstation: Dell Workstation () |
1 |
DST-SERB |
Workstation: Dell Workstation |
1 |
DBT |
Laptop |
1 |
DBT |
Printers |
3 |
DBT |
Scanner |
1 |
DBT |
Numeric UPS 40KVA |
1 |
DBT |
Delta 3kva Online UPS |
1 |
Other |
Faculty Members
Mentor
Dr. Parveen Chhuneja
Principal Molecular Geneticist-cum-Director
School of Agricultural Biotechnology
Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana-141004
Phone : +91 161 2401960 Ext. 270
Email : pchhuneja@pau.edu |
Project Investigator
Mr. Inderjit Singh Yadav
Bioinformatician
School of Agricultural Biotechnology
Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana-141004
Phone : +91 161 2401960 Ext. 270
Email : inderjityadav@pau.edu |
Co-PI
Dr. Deepak SIngla
Bioinformatician
School of Agricultural Biotechnology
Punjab Agricultural University
Ludhiana-141004
Phone : +91 161 2401960 Ext. 270
Email : deepak@pau.edu |
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