Presently, it is comprised of nine specialised Distributed Information
Centres (DIC's) and twenty three User Centres established at various national
R & D / institutions and Universities situated in different geographical
locations of India. An Apex Centre in the Department of Biotechnology,
New Delhi coordinates the BTIS network, also referred to as National Bioinformatics
Network. This network provides an integrated information resource on various
inter-disciplinary aspects of Biotechnology including :
Hard Data - Molecular
Biology databases, e.g. Nucleic Acid and Protein Sequence data, etc.,
Soft Information -
Bibliographic literature in Biotechnology, and
Management Information
- R & D Projects sponsored by DBT, Patents in Biotechnology, Profile
of Research Activities in Biotechnology, and various other directories.
Powerful biocomputing facilities have also been set up at five national
institiutes for molecular modelling and allied applications of bioinformatics
in biotechnology.
