Brief History of the Centre:-
Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) New Delhi has established Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics (CABin) with a team of multi-disciplinary research professionals as a division at Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi. The mission of this Centre is to provide computational support to biotechnological research in agriculture. Under the aegis of this Centre, a National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid (NABG) has been established in the country. In this grid, the first supercomputing hub for Indian Agriculture i.e. Advanced Supercomputing Hub for OMICS Knowledge in Agriculture - ASHOKA has been set up. This facility is built in a state-of-art Data Centre and out of nine super-computers of this grid, two super-computers are ranked at 11th and 24th in the list of top super-computers of India by Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore. This facility was dedicated to the Nation by Honourable Union Minster of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries on January 15, 2014. In order to provide access to this advanced computing facility to researchers, a National Bio-Computing Portal has been launched through which authenticated users will be able to perform their biological data analysis. This portal consists of number of computational biology and agricultural bioinformatics software/workflow/pipelines which will be able to automate routine biological analytics in seamless manner. Also, a Genome Submission Portal is being developed to assist our researchers for submission of their genomic data sets obtained through experimentations.

Approved Objectives of the Centre:-
1. To develop efficient computational methodology, algorithms/tools and software for analysis of omics data in agriculture.
2. To develop genomic data warehouse/ databases/web resources for efficient storage, analysis and dissemination of large biological information.
3. To support agricultural bioinformatics projects across institutions (providing computation support and assistance for bioinformatics analysis).
4. To build capacity and provide research support for biological data science in agriculture

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• Full Name:   Dr. Sunil Kumar
• Tel:   25847121
• Email:   skybiotech@gmail.com
• Location:   ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistic Research Institute, Library Avenue Pusa, New Delhi-110012
• Website:   http://cabgrid.res.in/cabin/