Bioinformatics Centre






The Bioinformatics Center, at the Department of Fishery Microbiology, College of Fisheries is one of the Distributed Information Subcentre (Sub-DIC) set up with financial support from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The Center was established in 2000. The Centre is actively involved in carrying out research, preparing databases and conducting training programmes in the area of Aquatic bioinformatics. Some of the research areas include: - Analysis of genome of viruses for repeat regions useful in understanding the structural properties, functional effects, evolutionary relationships and in molecular typing. - *Modelling the structure of outermembrane proteins of Aeromonas hydrophila* and application of bioinformatics in vaccine development. - Analysis of virulence genes of Vibrio spp.** - Studies on gene expression and development of EST Bank in the tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon The centre conducts training programme in bioinformatics and also provides bioinformatics support to neighbouring scientific institutions.
Activities at the centre


Release of database CD by Prof. H.P.C.Shetty	With Dr. Madanmohan at the Centre

Hands-on Training session	Dr. Manju Bansal IAB&B, Bangalore

Dr. Sathyamoorthy, MAHE	Training Session

A database on "The complete genome and proteins

of whitespot syndrome virus" was released on 27^th

September, 2001, by Prof.H.P.C.Shetty. This database

has been updated to include latest genomic and

proteomic information on WSSV.

Databases on genome of following organisms is

being made :

- WSSV

- The cultured shrimp Penaeus monodon

- The fish pathogen Aeromonas hydrophila

- The fish borne bacterial pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus

- The Indian tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon

- Antibiotic residues in shrimp

- Genomics of Vibrio vulnificus

Four National training programmes were organised:

- Application of Bioinformatics - 2002

- Application of Bioinformatics in Marine culture and Marine resource

utilization - 2003

- Application of Bioinformatics in Fisheries Sciences – 2004

- Bioinformatics and its applications in marine sciences -

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009

Conducted a National Symposium on Bioinformatics on

1-2 February, 2006

WWW Information Resources

Databases Related to Fisheries

http://www. onefish.org	Internet directory dedicated to fisheries and aquatic resources
http://www.fda.gov/	The US Food and Drug Administration-have a number of useful services, which include the Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the HACCP Page, Import Alerts etc.
http://www.agri-aqua.ait.ac.th/aahri/	The Aquatic Animal Health Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand. Leading Research Centre for aquatic health in the South East Asia Region.
http://naca.fisheries.go.th/	The Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia -Pacific sustaining aquaculture development in the Asia-Pacific region.
http://is.dal.ca/~mgpl/mgplhome.htm	The Marine Gene Probe Laboratory at Dalhousie University, Canada Information on research and commercial services in broodstock management, fisheries conservation and stock management and the biodiversity of aquatic species
http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/fish/	Information on fish nutrition
http://zebra.biol.sc.edu/	Zebrafish Information Centre, has links concerning zebrafish research
http://www.hafro.is/cgi-bin/ordabok/	Multi-lingual dictionary of common fish names
http://www.ascoll.org	Information on Bioinformatics diversity, statistics for fisheries, databases on bacteria and viruses .
http://fugu.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk	Genome sequence of Fugu fish and related information
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/	Information on Salmon fish research
http://www.auburn.edu/	Information on DNA marker technologies, gene cloning, genetic research analysis, population genetics, microarray technology and catfish hybrid initiation
Nucleotide Sequence databases
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/	NCBI, GenBank
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi docs/embl db/	EMBL, EBI
http://www.ddbj.niq.ac.jp/	DNA Data Bank of Japan
Protein associated databases
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebi docs/swissprotdb/swisshome.html	SWISS PROT
http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pir	Protein Information Resource
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb	Protein Data Bank
http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop	Structural classification of Proteins
Database Search Tools
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/	Entrez - Text Search Tools
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/	BLAST - Similarity searching
http://www2.ebi.ac.uk/fasta3/	FASTA – database search tool