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| BTISNET - Bioinformatics Infrastructure
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VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY,
MIDNAPORE |
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This centre has started operating
since August 2007.The first aim of establishing this center
in a rural university of West Bengal was to disseminate
the idea and knowledge about bioinformatics in the remote
corners of southern parts of the state. Since the Inception
till date, we have organized 14 workshops from where more
than 350 participants have benefitted. The target group
of those programs also ranged from undergraduate students
to senior college and university teachers of the allied
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The center has also started its research
activities recently and is making progresses.
The center is well equipped with nearly 30 desktop pcs,
two servers, one mac pc and other computers and peripherals.
Several software suites like sigma plot and enzyme kinetics,
Design Expert, Bio-ID, Genius Pro have been acquired.
Availability of 1gbps internet facility through campus
LAN has also made the works convenient for us.
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| Major research activities
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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.Our faculties
are actively engaged in research in different aspect of
biotechnology. Major fields of research are:-
- Structural and functional studies of different
industrially important enzymes like amylases, keratinases,
tannase, chitenase etc.
- Analysis of biological problems with machine learning
methods.
- Microbial enzyme (amylase, tannase, xylanase, chitinase)
production and scale up process.
- Production of microbial polysaccharides and antibiotics.
- Biofertilizer production and transfer of technology.
- Anticancer substances from mashroom.
- Antioxidant and antidiabetic constitute from medicinal
plants.
- Development of new fish feed.
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| Coordinator |
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Prof
Bikas Rankan Pati
Deptartment of Microbiology, Vidyasagar University,
Midnapore, WB, Pin 721101
Phone: 03222-273174 (direct), 03222-276554/555 (Ext.
477)
Mob: 09531506687;
Fax: 03222 – 275329 / 264338
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Co-coordinator |
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Dr. Keshab Chandra
Mondal
Mob : 09434196483 |
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