BIOINFORMATICS CENTRE
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY
DONA PAULA, GOA 403 004, INDIA
Area of Specialization : Marine Bioinformatics
Establishment : January 1990
Aims and Objectives :
- Collate & disseminate information on marine biodiversity of the
Indian seas.
- Establish network of marine biologists in the country.
- Develop Computer Aided Taxonomic Identification System (CATIS) for
marine data.
- Help scientific community in Computer/computational problems.
- Develop subject- specific Databases/Databanks.
- Training and expertise development.
Potential Users
- Marine Biologists and Biotechnologists
- Academicians and Students
- Industries
- Administrators and Planners.
Achievements
- NIO's Database on Marine Life of India (NIODMLI).
- NIODMLI TOUR ver 1.0, demonstration package for NIODMLI.
- Indian National Database on Marine Biology and Biotechnology (INDMBB).
- Databank of Life Sciences and Biotechnology databases.
- Development of Numerical Taxonomic Coding System (NIO CODE).
- CAT ver 1.0 an automatic code generation and systematics package for
marine biota.
- Access to INTERNET.
- Databases in Life Sciences and Biotechnology
: A Directory (ISBN : 81-900074-1-6)
Workshop(s) held
- National Workshop on Databases and Networking in Marine Biology, 9-11
March 1994.
- National Workshop on Computer Aided taxonomy for Marine Biota, 9-11
November 1994.
Address.
Bioinformatics Centre
National Institute of Oceanography
Dona Paula, Goa 403 004, India
Telephone : 91 (0)832 221322/226253
Telegram : OCEANOLOGY, Panaji
Fax : 91 (0) 832 229102
e-mail : bioinfo@darya.nio.org
Contact Persons :
- Dr. D. Chandramohan - Officer-in-Charge.
