Dr. P. P. Mathur, Head
The Centre for Bioinformatics was
established as Sub-DIC in the year 1991-92
which was later upgraded to DIC. The Centre
has taken an initiative in manpower
development in Bioinformatics and started
an Advanced Post- graduate Diploma Course
in Bioinformatics with the support from the
Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi in
the year 2001.
The Centre has so far conducted twenty one
seminars, workshops and training
programmes in the last fourteen years. The
Centre has been offering a four credit course
in Bioinformatics to the students of the
University since 1994.
The Centre has undertaken several
collaborative projects in various areas like
comparative genomics, Zinc finger protein
engineering, molecular modeling, drug
target identification, development of
teaching aids in bioinformatics, etc. The
Centre has been providing computational
facilities, bibliographic searches,
bioinformatics related services to its users.
More than 150 regular users from various
departments of Pondicherry University,
affiliated institutions and nearby
Universities have been using these
facilities. The Centre has 4 positions of
Studentship/Traineeship of one-year
duration sponsored by DBT, Government of
India, to train post-graduate degree holders
in various aspects of bioinformatics.
Programmes of Study
M.Sc. Bioinformatics
Ph.D. Bioinformatics
Advanced Post-graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics*
*Subject to approval by DBT, Government of India
Stipend
A stipend of Rs.5,000/- p.m. is provided by
the Department of Biotechnology,
Government of India, New Delhi for all the
students.
Entrance Examination
Ph.D.
Only NET qualified students are
admitted for the Ph.D Programme.
M.Sc. Bioinformatics
Selection of studetns is based on entrance
examination conducted at various centers
inthe country. The test consists of multiple
choice questions in Biochemistry, Molecular
Biology, Chemistry, Biophysics, Computer
Science, Statistics and Mathematics.
The question paper for Advance Postgraduate
Diploma programme will be of the
objective type having 90 questions. For Ph.D.
programme candidates qualified for JRF
(CSIR) and those selected for projects are
eligible.
Special Grants
The M.Sc. (Bioinformatics is supported by the
University Grants Commission, New Delhi
under the Innovative Programme - Teaching
and reserach in Interdisciplinary & Emerging
areas. The Advacnes P.G. Diploma in
Bioinformatics is supported by the
Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India.
The centre is receiving grants from various
organizations like DBT, DST and Ministry
of Information Technology.
Infrastructure Facilities
Computers, Accessories & Communication
Facility AMD Opteron Server, Wipro Xeon @
3.0 Ghz Server, Silicon Graphics Fuel
Machine, Around 35 Pentium IV
workstations which runs on both Windows
and Linux Operating Systems, HP 4600 DN
color Laser, HP 2200DN Laser Printer, Digital
Photo Copiers, Epson LQ 2180 Dot Matrix
Printer, HP 4P- Laser Printer, HP Inkjet 810
& 670 C, *) col. Color printer & 132 col.
Printers.
A Linux based Beowulf type clustering with
1 master and slaves are available for
molecular dynamics and simulation. Setting
up a dedicated clustering server is in
process.
The Department of Biotechnology,
Government of India, New Delhi has
sanctioned a special grant for a dedicated 2
Mbps connectivity exclusively for the Center
for Bioinformatics at Pondicherry University.
Scientific Software packages
Insight II, Amber, DS Modeling suite,
Autodock 3.0, Dock 5.0. Modeller 6.0. Gromos
96. whatif, EMBOSS, BioEdit, GeneScan,
DNSIS, Statistica, Endnote.
Resources & Services
Web server for sequence analysis, Blast,
Predict Protein, Sequence Manipulation
suite are available at http://
www.bicpu.edu.in
Web server for offline balst for sequence
homology search is available at http://
www.bicpu.edu.in/blast
Web based database administration tool
phpmyadmin is available at http://
www.bicpu.edu.in
Free Biosoftware Artemis, Bioedit, Clustal W,
Glimmer, Munner, Philip etc. are available
at http://www.bicpu.edu.in
A minor site of all publicly available protein
structure co-ordinate in the form of the
Protein Data Bank available at http://
www.bicpu.edu.in.pdb
A full mirror of the SCOP database linked to
PDB available at http://www.bicpu.edu.in/
scop
Database & other information resources
Books
300 books ( In addition to the books available in the Central Library)
Journals
Science, Nature, Scientific, American
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
Briefings in Bioinformatics, Nature Chemical
Biology, Nature Structural Biology, Cell, Linux
Magazine.
Access to CD-ROM Resources
Access to science-Direct and EBSCO database
Thrust Areas of Research
DNA-Protein Interactions, Genome
Sequence analysis, Protein Structure
Modeling, Molecular modeling, Drug Design.
Special Grants
The Center has received research grants
from various organizations like DBT and
others.
Placement Details
Some of the students trained in the Center
are placed in the following organizations
between 2001 and 2005:
- Institute of Bioinformatics,
Bangalore
- Orissa Agricultural
University, Bhubaneshwar
- HNB Garhwal University,
Srinagar
- University of Madras,
Chennai
- Central Sericulture Research
& Training Institute, Mysore
- Vector Control Research
Centre, Puducherry
- Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore.
- Protein Lounge,
Bhubaneshwar.
- Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, U.S.A.
- Genemines, Chennai
- HCL Infosystems, Puducherry
- Molecular Connections,
Bangalore
- Pondicherry University
| Faculty |
Qualification |
Specialization/Interest |
Phone |
| Professor |
| * P.P. Mathur (ppmathur.bic@pondiuni.edu.in) |
Ph.D. (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi) |
Biochemistry of Reproduction, Molecular Biology, Environmental Endocrinology, Bioinformatics |
419,417 |
| Lecturers |
| R. Krishna |
Ph.D.
(University of Madras, Chennai) |
X-Ray
Crystallography (Proteins), Molecular Modeling (Protein & DNA) |
|
| M. Suresh Kumar |
Ph.D. (University of Madras, Chennai) |
Structural Studies on
Visual Proteins, Promiscuity of Antibodies,
Inhibitators for Viral Proteases |
|
* Recognised as Supervisor for guiding scholars
leading to M.Phil. and Ph.D.
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