About BIC

Sub Distributed Information Centre (SDIC) at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana was sanctioned by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India in November 1998 as a part of Biotechnology Information System (BTISNET) Network to function as a Computerized Information Base in the fields related to Agricultural Biotechnology. The program was initially aimed to establish Computer and Communication Infrastructure Facilities for promoting biotechnology based R & D. The Bioinformatics Centre at PAU became functional in March 2001.

In July 2021, BIC start its 2^nd Phase with financial support form Dept. of Biotechnology, GOI, New Delhi. Now, the centre focus is on the establishment Next Generation Data Analysis facility and develop automatic pipelines and tool to fasten the research in the area of Agricultural Genomics. In the 2^ndPhase, our aim is to exvacate the biological information and utilize it in the crop improvement programme by developing new databases and tools.

Area of specialisation

• Applications of Bioinfomatics in Agriculture
• Mining genes of economic importance from wild relatives of crop plants
• Genome assembly and developing physical map
• RNAseq data analysis
• Comparative genomics analysis
• Phylogenetic and Evolutionary relationship studies
• Protein Structure Modeling and Ligand Protein interaction studies
• Database development

Objectives

• To serve as information base
• Human resource development
• Applications of genomics and transcriptomics for food, vegetable and fruit plants
• Providing pipelines for utilizaiton of DNA/ RNA sequence information for plant breeding

Current Area of Research

• NGS data analysis
• Genome Sequence Analysis
• Transcriptome Analysis
• Sequencing of major plant and pathogen genomes
• Utilization of rice and wheat genome sequence information for gene isolation and cloning
• Development of database for different agriculturally important crops

Inter Institutional Collaboration

• The John Innes Centre (JIC) Norwich, Norfolk, England
• Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States
• National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB)
• University of Delhi, South Campus. new Delhi
• Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut
• The Agharkar Research Institute is located in Pune, Maharashtra
• Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, India
• Central Rice Research Institute, Cuttack
• Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad

Infrastructure Facility

Faculty Members