Every year, the Bioinformatics
courses- “Elements of Bioinformatics” and
“Use of computers in molecular modeling”
are being offered by the centre to the PG students of
various disciplines including Biotechnology, Biochemistry,
Biophysics, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding and Genetics.
Every year more than 60 students enthusiastically enroll
and successfully complete these courses. Other than
the teaching of university’s students, centre
also actively disseminates bioinformatics knowledge
to students, researchers and academicians of other universities
by conducting on-hand training and organizing workshops
both on wide and specific areas of Bioinformatics and
System Biology with special reference to the applications
in Agricultural Biotechnology. These workshops had always
attracted numerous applicants for participation from
various part of the country.
The centre has initiated electronic inventerization
of plant biodiversity of Uttarakhand. A small database
“Uttaranchal Plant Resource DB” of 50 plants,
“Nutritional Plant Resource Database of Utttaranchal”,
enumerating nutritional and other information about
nearly 60 genotypes of small grains has been developed.
Database “Cry gene transgenic database”
providing comprehensive information about transformed
Cry genes in various crops has been developed. Similarly
research in Metabolic flux analysis and modeling of
Glycolsis in human cells and a Prokaryotic genome visualization
tool have been developed and are published in national
& international journals. The centre is also actively
involved in hands on skill training of Bioinformatics
skills by conducting workshops. So far twelve training
workshops have been conducted with active funding support
from DBT and our university. A web site was launched
on-line reflecting the various activities of the Bioinformatics
centre, Pantnagar
http://www.gbpuat.ac.in/acads/cbsh/Bioinformatics/home.htm.
Apart from teaching and organizing theme-specific workshops,
centre is helping the students of other disciplines
for successful conducting and analyzing their research
experiments, the centre also imparts short duration
training to students of other universities who applied
for their project/thesis dissertations every year. In
year 2010, three students from Banasthali Vidyapeeth,
Rajasthan successfully completed their dissertations
and presented their finding in the form of poster presentation
in the ‘International conference on Bioinformatics’
held at Bhubneswar (Orissa). Their work in the form
research papers has also been communicated/under preparation
for publication in reputed international journals for
publication.
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