MADRAS VETERINARY COLLEGE
BIOINFORMATICS CENTRE AND ARIS CELL
The Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India has established a nationwide Bioinformatics network in India namely BTISNet in 1986-87 with more than 61 Bioinformatics Centres. The main purpose of this network is to harness the scientific knowledge of rapid advancement in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology and sustainable utilization of biological resources for the betterment of nation. Madras Veterinary College at TANUVAS has been identified as one of the node in BTIS Network which was established during 1990-91 with following objectives to cater to the needs of scientists of Veterinary, Animal and Fishery Sciences in the field of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology.
- To act as a node for acquisition and dissemination of information related to biotechnology
- To get on-line and off-line information and disseminate to end users
- Data retrieval
- Building up resource database and information sharing in areas of Biotechnology
- One year course on PG Diploma in Bioinformatics (PGDBI) under semester pattern
- Two years course on M.Sc Bioinformatics from 2011-2012 onwards under semester pattern
IBM server, LINUX server IBM, HCL, Lenovo Desktops, etc.
Black and colour printers, scanner, LCD projector and OHP projector, etc
512 kbps leasedline internet connectivity which enables PG scholars and staff to retrieve online information on their own.
Genesis pro, Exome Version 1.1, Gene tool, MS SQL server 2000, Visual studio.net, Discovery Studio, etc.
- ASFA - Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts on CDROM (1978 - March 2003)
- BEASTCD - Animal Production and Dairy Technology Abstracts on CDROM (1973 - November 2002)
- FSTA - Food Science, & Technology Abstracts (1969 - April 2003)
- VETCD - Animal Sciences, Food & Agriculture and Veterinary Science abstracts on CDROM (1973 - November 2002)
- BIOSIS- Biological Abstracts (Life Sciences, Biology and Environment) on CDROM (1993 - 1999)
- CCOD on Life Sciences - Current Contents on Life Sciences (Oct'93 - Feb'1997)
- CCOD on Agri.Bio.Environ.Sciences - Current Contents on Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Sciences (Oct'93 to Feb'1997)
- MEDLINE - Medicine's bibliographic database on CDROM (1991 -Jul'1998)
- NUCSSI - National Union Catalogue on Scientific Serials in India - 1997 & 2000
Wetlab equipped with Gel Electrophoresis, Digital Electronic Balance, PCR Thermal Cycler, UV-Transilluminator , Laminar Airflow, Micro oven, Hot Plate, water bath, Vortex Machine, high speed centrifuge, etc.
The scientists, research scholars (M.V.Sc & Ph.D), teaching faculties, of TANUVAS and other units of TANUVAS are retrieving the scientific information for their research on their own at free of cost utilizing the Internet facilities (leased line) available at Bioinformatics centre. During the period 2010-2011, 478 scientists and research scholars have been benefited by online services of this centre.
Overall users from 2000-2001 to 2010-2011: 38914
Information is being retrieved from CDROM
based databases to scientists and research scholars of TANUVAS and others. During the year 2010-2011, a total of 430 scientists and research scholars have been benefited by the literature retrieval service provided by this centre.(TANUVAS:17, Other universities:404 and other states:9)
Overall users from 1992-93 to 2010-2011: 16607
Research works in the areas of Docking / Drug Discovery, Lead optimization, Epitope Prediction, Microarray Analysis,Pathway Analysis, Database Creation,Modelling, Comparative Genomics are being carried out by the life science students of other colleges with the internal facilities and guidance of Bioinformatics centre under prescribed charges as follows:
Six months project Rs. 12,500
Three Months project Rs. 10,000
One Month Project Rs. 5,000
Periodical training programmes are being conducted for the skill and knowledge development of scientists and research scholars working in the areas Bioinformatics, molecular modelling and Information retrieval.
- An information Retrieval Package granted Copyright by Govt. of India
- Student Relational Database Management System (SRDBMS) for the administration of student activities in an educational system based on Veterinary Council of India (VCI) syllabus.
- Database on abstracts of Research findings on Poultry by TANUVAS scientists (up to 2000)
- Database on abstracts of PG theses (1996-2003) and
- Database on abstracts of completed research schemes of TANUVAS (1998-2003) in English and Tamil
- Biofilm Databank
- PROLYMPH : An online database on cancer biomarkers expressed in canine lymphoma and mast cell tumor
- Database on H5N1 interaction
- Primer database
- Canine Mammary Tumor database
Agricultural Research Information System
ICAR scheme on NISAGENET (Website: http://nisagenet.iasri.res.in)
Products Available
- Information Retrieval Package at a cost of ` 7500 for non-profit organizations and SAU’s and ` 10,000 for others.
IRP Pamphlet - Database on abstracts on Research findings of Poultry by TANUVAS upto 2000-CDROM at a cost of 100 per CD.
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- Conduct of M.Sc Bioinformatics & PG Diploma in Bioinformatics
- Continuation of offering projects to explore Herbal resources in the field of Medicine.
- Conduct of training programme to update current informations on “Bioinformatics and its applications”
- Conduct of training programme on New heights in the field of “Information Retrieval System”
- Conduct of summer/Winter school on Bioinformatics sponsored by DBT
- Literature retrieval service through offline and online
- Creation and Updation of database in animal sciences
- HRD : Updation of skills and knowledge of staff of Bioinformatics Centre, MVC
- Conduct of studentship projects in Bioinformatics
- Updation of in-house databases
- Offering student projects to the external students
- Collaboration with Industries in the field of Bioinformatics
- To develop webportal for inhouse databases and Bioinformatics databases developed at this centre
Dr. P. Dhanapalan, Professor and Head
Dr. S. Sureshkannan, Assistant Professor
Dr. P.L. Sujatha, Assistant Librarian