The centre was granted support by DBT in 2009 to promote the activities of the centre further. The centre specializes in NGS data analysis, comparative genomics, in-silico screening for lead discovery, Molecular Simulation, Machine Learning algorithms for bioinformatics and development of specialized databases and software packages.

The centre, apart from collaborating with different research groups at ICGEB and other institutes, is actively interested to apply and develop bioinformatics tools to study gene regulatory elements in Plasmodium falciparum, rice and other genomes. The centre is also developing prediction tools for lead discovery, based on artificial intelligence algorithms, focusing development of novel antimalarials.

For more information: http://bioinfo.icgeb.res.in