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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

Considering the growing demand for bioinformatics
technical support, the facility is also started to offer
almost 10 frequently used bioinformatics analysis
in the form of services.

The bioinformatics facility web-portal allows
researchers to make an appointment (slots
are available on all working day) with the
bioinformaticians and discuss their requirements.
Upon an mutual agreement on the requirements,
the invoices will be issued from RGCB and the
analysis will be performed within weeks of time.

Over the first 6 months of the activities, over 300
people from various parts of the country participated
in various training progammes conducted by the
facility. There are 38 students participating in the
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and occasional one year certificate program. Also, we are offering
institutional shutdowns, we have initiated a possibilities for external students to do their
string of new programmes at RGCB. One of the academic project in Bioinformatics as part of their
important initiative that we made in 2021 was curriculum.
to structure the Bioinformatics Facility at RGCB
and provide bioinformatics training and support In near future, we will be expanding our ongoing
to researchers and students from academia. The activities and computational infrastructure with
state of the art Bioinformatics facility is located additional NVIDIA GPU server, which enable
at the Bio-Innovation Cener (BIC) campus of us to perform large scale data mining using
RGCB. The facility activities are coordinated by Dr. machine learning and deep-learning approaches.
Shijulal Nelson-Sathi with a team of experienced Independent research engagement and additional
bioinformaticians, IT-technicians and scientists collaborative with universities in the country are in
(Dr. Kathiresan N, Dr. Jamshid Ali, Dr. Sivakumar process.
K C, Mr. Anand Mohan & Mrs. Meena Vinay) and a
series of well structured hand-on training programs I am grateful to the administration, dean and the
are offered in various domains of computational instrumentation providing generous support to
Biology. The facility provides, short-term (1-Day) the initiatives made by the Bioinformatics Facility.
training programs in computer programming (R/ Please visit our facility at www. rgcb.res.in/cbb-
Python), Biological sequence analysis, NGS data about.php for more information.
analysis, structural bioinformatics and computer
aided drug discovery. For those who are interested Jai Hind
in gaining deeper knowledge in bioinformatics
techniques, the facility is also running an 1-year
certificate program with 6 months training and an
6 months offline project at the facility. This year
onwards we have arranged the lecture schedules Prof. Chandrabhas Narayana
from 9.00 am to 10.00 am on every working day. FASc, FRSC, FNASc
Director

RGCB BITS 1

BIOINFORMATICS TRAINING & SERVICES
april - DECEMBER 2021