Database development
Building databases and software for seribioinformatics, with records that describe genomes, proteins, markers and transcription factors.
Open the database indexBTISnet Sub DIC / Mysore
A national bioinformatics node for sericulture research.
The Bioinformatics Centre at CSRTI, Mysore was established in 1999 to build, organise and share biotechnological information for sericulture research in India. It is a sub node of the BTISnet network of the Department of Biotechnology.
1999Year established
07Maintained databases
20Training programmes
691Participants recorded
From the archive
Workshop on Bioinformatics and its applications in Biological Research, 25 and 26 March 2019.
Read the notices01 / Mandate
A repository built for sericulture science.
The centre was created to gather biotechnological information produced in laboratories across the country and make it available to scientists in India and around the world.
A national repository should not sit apart from the laboratories that create the knowledge.
The centre works under the administrative control of the Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute, Mysore. Its parent network connects it with international centres such as NCBI, EBI and DDBJ, while subject specialisations across India contribute to the shared information base.
Its work brings three things together: curated biological data, practical training, and direct access to computing facilities for students, scientists and research scholars.
- Administrative control
- CSRTI, Mysore
- Network
- BTISnet, DBT
- Primary field
- Sericulture biotechnology
- Mode of work
- Data, training and access
02 / Work
What the centre does.
Four connected areas of work support sericulture researchers and the wider biotechnology community.
Training and workshops
Organising programmes on bioinformatics and seribioinformatics for scientists, research scholars and students.
View the training recordShared infrastructure
Sharing the centre's computing resources and expertise with scientists of the institute and visiting researchers.
See the facilitiesAccess and digital media
Online and offline browsing for students and researchers, supported by a digital studio for audiovisual material.
Read the mandate03 / Databases
Seven records, one research shelf.
The centre develops and maintains resources for mulberry, silkworm and soil data. Two further resources are recorded as under development.
Featured record
Mulberry Genome Database
Molecular marker data on DNA polymorphism, DNA fingerprints, similarity matrices, dendrograms and marker segregation patterns, assembled for mulberry research.
View the Mulberry record04 / Network
Local research, global sequence archives.
BTISnet connects the centre to national subject nodes and to the international archives that hold sequence and protein data.
The centre is attached to the BTISnet network of the Department of Biotechnology. That network connects Indian laboratories with NCBI in the United States, EBI in the United Kingdom and DDBJ in Japan.
The aim is practical: a researcher working on mulberry or silkworm should be able to move from a local observation to a wider body of biological evidence.
How the centre is organised05 / Training
A training record that spans a decade.
Twenty programmes held between 2002 and 2013 are recorded in the centre's legacy training table. Together they reached 691 participants.
2013
Workshop on Bioinformatics and its Applications22 and 23 November 2013
26 participants
2012
Workshop on Bioinformatics and its Applications29 and 30 November 2012
32 participants
2011
Basics of Network and internet usage2 to 24 September 2011
80 participants
06 / Facilities
Computing and media infrastructure for shared research.
The centre maintains servers, desktop systems, portable computers, printers, a digital camera, a multimedia projector and a centralised power supply. Internet access is provided through a BSNL leased line.
Inspect the equipment recordInternet connectivity recorded at 2 Mbps through a BSNL leased line.
Equipment inventory retained from the legacy website.Contact the centre
Questions about a record, a workshop or access?
The centre's contact page lists institute and Bioinformatics Centre telephone, fax and email details.