Dept of Bioinformatics – Lab

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University > Centre for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology > Dept of Bioinformatics – Lab

FACILITIES:

  • Classrooms and computer lab and molecular biology laboratories with a total area of 15,000 sq.ft are made available for teaching and research.
  • 100 desktop computers (55 Nos of i5 desktop computers and 45 Intel Core i3) are used for bioinformatics teaching and training activities.
  • Browsing Center facility for all UG / PG students established with i5 desktop computers.
  • Molecular marker lab facility is available for students’ class and research work.
  • Fields comprising of wet lands, dry lands and garden lands are available for students to raise the crops for the research, demonstrations and class work.

Bioinformatics Lab I

Bioinformatics Lab II

COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION FACILITIES

Servers

  • Dell PowerEdge T630server with 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620V4 (2.1Ghz/8core/20MB/85W), 128GB DDR4 RAM is involved for bioinformatics pipelines of NGS data analysis.
  • Dell PowerEdge T630server with 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620V4 (2.1Ghz/8core/20MB/85W), 32 GB DDR4 RAM is employed for bioinformatics pipelines of biomolecular simulations.
  • One Sun fire X2200M2 server (4+1 nodes), Server rack, 16 port switch.
  • One IBM server (Intel Pentium 4 processor, 3.20 Ghz, 1GB RAM, 160GB, 7200 RPM SATA hard disk drive) used for teaching and domain activities.
  • One IBM Server (IBM server system x 3400. Dual core Intel xeon processor, 2GB RAM, 667 MHZ FSb.) used for networking.
  • One Intel Xeon server with Geno cluster (Intel xeon NACONA processor @ 3.0 Ghz, 800MHZ FSB, 17” Samsung Dyna set flat clour monitor).
  • 40 Intel Core 2 Duo computers were connected to an IBM server is used for bioinformatics teaching and training activities.

Workstations

  • HP-Z840 High end workstation (2 x Intel Xeon E5-2600 V4 Series Processor with 22 core and 256 GB RAM with Linux operating system for running bioinformatics analysis pipeline).

Apple MAC Desktop

  • Apple Mac desktop computer – 3 Nos. (Two 2.4 GHz Quad core Intel Xeon “ west mere” processor, 1 TB Serial SATA, 7200 RPM hard disk drive ) and Apple Mac pro (Dual core, Intel xeon Processor, 7200 RPM HDD, 250 GB Serial SATA, 20” apple LCD display) used for molecular modeling and Docking studies.

Network Facility

  • 24 Mbps internet connectivity has been established exclusively at 24/7 for CPMB & B from BSNL – one to one exclusive connection.
  • Firewall – 1 GB RAM, Throughput of min. of 1.3 Gbps support, Min. Antivirus throughput 400 Mbps, IMIX throughput min. of 700 Mbps and support minimum 1,00,000 concurrent sessions.
  • Wi-Fi facility @ 24 Mbps for students and scholars at 24/7.

Other Facilities

  • Printing and Scanning facilities for students and faculties.
  • Multi-function printer EPSON-C869R is available to print the research articles and, education related documents and reports.

UPS (8+5+20 kVA) provides uninterrupted power supply to the user centre.

   

BTIS Webserver

BIO-CLUSTER SERVERS WITH 5 NODES

HP – Z840 Highnd workstation

 (2 x Intel Xeon E5-2600 V4 Series Processor with 22 core and 256 GB RAM )

SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE PACKAGES

Name Purpose
Blast2Go Genome Annotation
VLifeMDS Molecular Modelling, docking and QSAR
CLC Genomics Workbench NGS data analysis
Discovery studio software protein modeling and simulations
Mapmaker/Mapmaker QTL Linkage map construction and QTL analysis
Accelrys – Discovery Studio Visualization Analysis and communication of modeling studies
IRRISTAT for windows Statistical analysis of experimental data
BioSuite Sequence analysis and molecular modeling
Genocluster (server edition with ten user license) Sequence analysis
Windows 2003 server + twenty client license For networking

BTIS (BioTechnology Information System)

Bioinformatics Centre of TNAU (SubDIC Centre) is playing major role in disseminating agricultural bioinformatics related information and computational resources to the scientists of agriculture and allied subjects in Tamil Nadu. Bioinformatics activity at TNAU dates back to 1989 with the inception of the Biotechnology Information System (BTIS) program of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. This centre provides access for computational resources like servers, workstation, commercial software, journals and online books besides providing high speed internet connectivity to the scientists of this center. This Centre also maintains in-house databases and software tools in a separate online server (URL: http://btistnau.in/). Resources maintained at this BTISNet are vital for successful completion of collaborative bioinformatics research projects like DBT-NER projects on whole genome and transcriptome sequencing of banana, scented rice and pigeon pea and many other externally funded projects. This centre played a tremendous role in disseminating bioinformatics knowledge to the scientist by conducting regular bioinformatics training for the past 30 years and organized 35 bioinformatics training programs since inception.