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A grand challenge in the area of science is to understand biological processes in terms of their underlying physical and chemical processes. The Human Genome Project was a step in that direction to advance fundamental biological understanding and provide the basis for future advances in biotechnology, agriculture, environmental remediation and quality, health and medical practice. However, the enormous amount of accumulated data has proven to be a bottleneck in the area, necessitating the need for high performance computing. It is well known that many of the problems in Bioinformatics can be addressed only with compute power, which is well beyond the teraflop scale.

Bioinformatics Resources & Applications Facility (BRAF)

High Performance Computing (HPC) has become a critical component in areas like Bioinformatics and molecular modelling, due to the vast amount of data flooding into genome sequence databases like EMBL and GenBank. The challenge lies in understanding protein folding, comparative genomics of multiple organisms, searching complete human genome database for finding novel genes, identifying drug targets and so on. The Bioinformatics Resources & Applications Facility (BRAF) of C-DAC provides a high-end supercomputing facility to the Bioinformatics research community with remote access to the existing Bioinformatics software available on PARAM Padma, a one teraflop supercomputer, developed indigenously by C-DAC. A joint initiative of the Department of Information Technology , MC&IT, Govt. of India and C-DAC, the BRAF will assist the academia and industries in the area of bioinformatics to accelerate their research or product development.

Technical Programme

• BRAF Inauguration
  
• Technical presentations by invited speakers on HPC applications in Bioinformatics
  
• Demonstration- Problem Solving Environment (PSE)
  
• Demonstration- Execution of parallel/serial bioinformatics codes on PARAM Padma through remote logging
  

Who should attend?

This is an advanced level workshop and is targeted at researchers in government institutes, universities and the Bioinformatics industry. Researchers who have felt the need of HPC in their work would benefit from this discussion meet. The overall objective of the meet is to encourage and promote the use of HPC systems for research and other applications.

Registration

There is no registration fee to attend the above programme. Participants are requested to make their own arrangements for accommodation and travel.

Registration Closed

Venue

C-DAC
Knowledge Park,
1, Old Madras Road, Byappanahalli
Bangalore 560 038
Tel: +91-80-2524 6822/6/7/8 Fax: +91-80-2524 7724

Bioinformatics@C-DAC

Established in March 1988, as a Scientific Society of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (formerly the Department of Electronics), Government of India, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), is primarily an R&D institution involved in the design, development and deployment of electronics and advanced Information Technology (IT) products and solutions.

In a decade and a half since its inception, C-DAC has established its brand image as a premier R & D institution of national and international repute working in advanced areas of electronics and information technology and developing and deploying IT products and solutions for diverse sectors of economy. The vision of the bioinformatics team at C-DAC is to further the understanding of biological systems in terms of their underlying physical and chemical processes, using High Performance Computing and Internet & Communication Technologies with a mission to build a centre of excellence that can provide solutions and services to address problems in biology which demand the usage of High Performance Computing systems.

The team is actively engaged in various domain activities such as molecular modelling, genome sequence analysis, comparative genomics, microarray data analysis, systems biology and so on. The team is also involved in developing web computing portals for the bioinformatics codes, and enabling the codes to work on a grid computing environment.