Brief History of the Centre:-
Sub Distributed Information Centre (SubDIC) at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana was sanctioned by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India in November 1998 as a part of Biotechnology Information System (BTISNET) Network to function as a Computerized Information Base in the fields related to Agricultural Biotechnology. The program was initially aimed to establish Computer and Communication Infrastructure Facilities for promoting biotechnology based R & D. The Bioinformatics Centre at PAU became functional in March 2001. Our goal is to promote and utilize the potential of Bioinformatics in crop improvement programme. In the first phase, we have established basic computational infrastructure for supporting the experimental biologist. Within 3-4 years, we have rigoursly worked in the field and familiarized the scientists and students/researchers with the potential application of Bioinformatics. Later on, a super computing facility was setup under the umberlla of International Wheat Genome Sequencing Project funded by the DBT. Centre has sucessfully completed the 1st Phase with number of publications in the National and International Journals. In July 2021, BIC start its 2nd Phase with financial support form Dept. of Biotechnology, GOI, New Delhi.

Approved Objectives of the Centre:-
1. Analysis of the genome and transcriptome of major field crops for the identification of genes of economic importance for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance, productivity, and quality improvement.
2. Analysis of genome and transcriptome of plant pathogens to study the pattern of evolution
3. Development of a database for comparative analysis using in-house and publically available datasets.
4. Development of deep-learning/machine learning based software for the annotation of stress-tolerant genes.
5. Mining genes involved in stress tolerance and the development of associated markers
6. Application of Computational approaches in the crop breeding programme of major field, fruit and vegetable crops.
7. Human resource development in bioinformatics.

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• Full Name:  Inderjit Singh Yadav
• Tel:   01612401969
• Email:   inderjityadav@pau.edu
• Location:  Bioinformatician, School of Agricultural Biotechnology, PAU, Ludhiana
• Website:   http://45.248.163.60/bic