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| The Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI, originally established in 1905 at Pusa (Bihar), started functioning from New Delhi since 1936. The institute's popular name `Pusa Institute' traces its origin to the establishment of the institute at Pusa. The IARI is the country's premier institution for research and higher education in agricultural disciplines leading to the award of M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees and has been given the status of a `Deemed to be University' under the UGC Act of 1956. The present campus of the institute is spread over an area of about 500 hectares out of which 380 hectares is the farm area. The institute has one of the largest Agro Biological Libraries in the world which has over 6 lakh publications and has been accorded the status of National Agricultural Library. |
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| The Bioinformatics Centre (BIC) at IARI was established as a part of Biotechnology Information System (BTIS) Network and funded by the Department of Biotechnology to function as computerised information base in Agricultural Biotechnology with specialization in the areas of Photosynthesis, Plant Molecular Biology and Plant Tissue Culture. The centre has several databases allied to agriculture and related fields and is making the required information available to the users all over the country besides providing e-mail and Internet facilities. |  |
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centre is engaged in developing new databases and updating the old databases
already available at the centre. The databases available with the centre
are CROP PRODUCTIVITY DATABASE, LAND USE DATABASE, METEOROLOGICAL DATABASE,
AGRICULTURAL BIOTEC DATABASE, AGRIS, AGRICOLA, CAB-ABSTRACTS, EARTH SCIENCE,
FOOD & HUMAN NUTRITION, WORLD LIST OF AGRICULTURAL SERIALS, WATER RESOURCES
ABSTRACTS and MAIZE GERMPLASM. The information is also retrieved from the
CD-NET facility established at the National Agricultural Library of the
institute. The CD-ROM Workstation has two CD-NET towers, 14 drives each,
10 networking terminals and connection with 20 divisions of IARI through
campus LAN by fibre-optic cable. The databases available on CD-NET include
Zoological Records, Biotechnology Abstracts, AgriSearch Spectrum Series
with Soil CD, CAB pest, Hort CD, Crop CD Agr. Eco CD etc., CGIAR-IARCs
Library full text databases, World Water and Climate Atlas. Organisation
of periodic training programmes, seminars, conferences and workshops are
an integral part of the activities of the Bioinformatics Centre. These
programmes provide an opportunity to the participants to familiarize them
with the new techniques in Biocomputing, creation and use of computerized
databases and various programming techniques. The resources available at
this centre are being used by scientists, researchers, students of various
Agricultural Universities, Research Institutions and Govt. Departments.
CONTACT FOR DETAILS Dr.
R.K. Chowdhary
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