|
|
|
1 lecture room and 2 Bioinformatics
laboratory
The
Bioinformatics laboratory – A Step Towards Green Computing
Servers
and workstations housed in this Laboratory, have 25 terminals. As the
department added more computers and servers to extend its
computational facilities, it would be noted that the power
consumption would also increase rapidly along with the amount of heat
liberated. So to take a care of reducing the power consumption
without jeopardizing the computational capability – we have
introduced:
TFT
monitors – The TFT monitors consumes much less power than the
conventional CRT monitors which usually have a power rating of ~ 60
watts and do not almost heat up as compared to the CRTs.
Protos
boxes from Wipro (with 40 GB HDD, 4 USB ports, Geode processors from
AMD) with a very small form factor(saving space), low on power
consumption (~ 12 watts) and almost does not heat up.
To
minimize the use of monitors, most of the servers are connected a
single Monitor through a KVM switch.
|
Sl.
No.
|
HARDWARE
|
Total
|
|
Servers
|
|
|
1
|
IBM
x206
(1GB RAM, Single Xeon Dual proc)
|
2
|
|
2
|
IBM
x226
(4 GB RAM, Dual Xeon Dual proc)
|
2
|
|
3
|
IBM
x3650
(4 GB RAM, Dual Xeon Quad Core
Proc)
|
1
|
|
4
|
HP
Proliant DL 160 G6
(16 GB RAM, Dual Xeon Quad Core
X5550 proc)
|
1
|
|
Workstations
|
|
|
5
|
IBM Intellistation Z Pro
|
1
|
|
6
|
Mac Pro
|
1
|
|
7
|
Lenovo Thinkstation S20
|
1
|
|
Desktops
|
|
|
8
|
HP compaq DX 2700
|
4
|
|
9
|
IBM Thinkcentre
|
2
|
|
10
|
Lenovo M58e
|
2
|
|
11
|
Mac Mini
|
1
|
|
12
|
Dell Desktops
|
|
|
|
UPS
|
|
|
13
|
APC
Backup UPS 650
|
4
|
|
14
|
APC
Smart-UPS 2200
|
1
|
|
15
|
APC
Smart RT 10000VA
|
1
|
|
16
|
Emerson
Interactive UPS 1KVA
|
1
|
|
17
|
Emerson
UPS 600VA
|
8
|
|
|
Internet
|
|
|
|
VSNL − 2MBPS
|
1
|
|
|
SOFTWARE
|
|
|
1
|
Operating System
|
Fedora Core 4, 6, 7
|
35
|
|
OpenSuse 11.2
|
|
|
Ubuntu Studio
|
1
|
|
RHEL 3 update 5
|
1
|
|
Windows XP
|
|
|
Windows Vista
|
1
|
|
Windows 7
|
2
|
|
Mac Snow Lepoard 10.6
|
3
|
|
2
|
Antivirus
|
Quickheal Total Security
|
10 user
|
|
3
|
Visualization and Molecular
Modeling
|
Rasmol, SPDBV viewer, Pymol,
Yasara visualizer, Molworks, raster3d
|
Free/ Open Source
|
|
4
|
Phylogenetic and Sequence
Analysis
|
Emboss, ARB clustalW, netblast,
phylip (Free/ Open Source)
|
1
|
|
Genocluster
|
|
5
|
Molecular Modelling, Molecular
Dynamics, Docking and Visualization
|
VMD, Gromacs, DSSP, OpenBabel,
(Free/ Open Source)
|
1
|
|
Cerius2
|
|
|
Charmm22
|
1
|
|
Discovery Studio 2.5.5
|
1
|
|
6
|
Chemistry, AbInitio
|
Mopac, gamess, Bkchem (Free/
Open Source)
|
1
|
|
ChemBio Office Ultra 2010
|
|
7
|
Miscellaneous
|
iGOR
|
1
|
|
iNMR
|
1
|
|
|
|
ICM Browser Pro
|
1
|
Bioinformatics
Infrastructure Facility(BIF) Center, WBUT
Bioinformatics
Infrastructure Facility (BIF) Center established by the Department of
Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, under its BTISnet program,
is associated with the Department of Bioinformatics, WBUT. The Center
regularly receives grants of rupees fifteen to twenty lakhs from DBT,
for the purpose of “Establishment of Bioinformatics Infrastructure
Facility (BIF) for the promotion of Biology Teaching through
Bioinformatics (BTBI)”.
Prof.
Sabyasachi SenGupta, Vice-Chancellor, WBUT,
is the Chairperson
of the BIF Center, Dr. Raja
Banerjee
is the Coordinator
and Dr. S. Supakar
is the Co-coordinator
of the BIF Center.
Besides
helping in the regular departmental curriculum, the
Center regularly organizes workshops, training and seminars. Eminent
Scientists from different research institutions, Universities, R&D
organizations from all over the country deliver seminars on current
research topics.
Activities
of the BIF Center
(hyperlink to the below table)
|
Sl. No.
|
Subject
|
Date
|
Resource
Persons
|
Persons
Trained
|
Organized By
|
|
1
|
Using R for Data
Analysis
And Biostatistics
|
Nov 17, 2006
|
Dr. Arindam Basu
|
20
|
Dept of
Bioinformatics
|
|
2
|
QSAR and Rational
Drug Design -
hands-on
demonstration on Cerius2
|
Jan 27, 2007
|
Dr.
Kunal Roy (Jadavpur University)
Dr. C. Majumder (Accelrys)
Prof. A. K. Rakshit
(WBUT)
|
20
|
Dept of
Bioinformatics
|
|
3
|
Phylogenetic
analysis using Genocluster - (a hands-on demonstration)
|
Mar 12, 2007
|
Scientists from
Jalaja Technologies, Bangalore
|
20
|
Dept of
Bioinformatics
|
|
4
|
R for all – An
advanced Tutorial - I
|
March 14-15, 2007
|
Dr. Arindam Basu
|
20
|
Dept of
Bioinformatics
|
|
5
|
R for all – An
advanced Tutorial - II
|
Sept.14-15, 2007
|
Dr. Arindam Basu
|
20
|
Dept of
Bioinformatics
|
|
6
|
R for all – An
advanced Tutorial - III
|
Oct.12-13, 2007
|
Dr. Arindam Basu
|
20
|
Dept of
Bioinformatics
|
|
7
|
Molecular Dynamics
- Seminar
|
Mar 24, 2008
|
Prof. C.
Ramakrishnan (IISc, MBU)
Prof. Rabi Majumder (WBUT)
Prof.
Indira Ghosh (Univ. of Pune)
Dr. Pinak Pani Chakraborty
(IICB)
Dr. Gautam Basu (Bose Institute)
|
25
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
8
|
Molecular Dynamics
– Hands on workshop
|
March 25 -28 , 2008
|
Prof. Dhananjay
Bhattacharya
(SINP)
Dr. Subhrangshu Supakar
(WBUT)
|
15
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
9
|
Application of
Bioinformatics in Today's Experimental Biology
|
Sep 9, 2009
|
Prof. Siddharta Roy
(IICB)
Dr. Debasisa Mohanty
(NII, Delhi)
Prof. Gautam
Basu
(Bose Institute)
Prof. Rahul Banerjee (SINP)
Dr.
Raja Banerjee (WBUT)
|
60
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
10
|
Application of
Bioinformatics in Today's Experimental Biology – hands on
workshop
|
September 10-11,
2009
|
Prof. Dhananjay
Bhattacharya (SINP)
Dr. Surajit Basak (NICED)
Dr.
Subhrangshu Supakar (WBUT)
|
43
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
11
|
Computational
Biology for Experimentalists
|
Feb 8, 2010
|
Dr. Jaydeb
Chakrabarty (SINP)
|
29
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
12
|
Computational
Biology for Experimentalists – Hands on Workshop
|
Feb 8 and 9, 2010
|
Prof. Dhananjay
Bhattacharya (SINP)
Dr. Surajit Basak (NICED)
Dr.
Subhrangshu Supakar (WBUT)
|
26
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
13
|
Basics of
Statistics & Databases in Bioinformatics
|
Jan 24 and 25, 2011
|
Prof.
B.P. Chatterjee (WBUT)
Prof.
K. Bhaumik (Former Prof. SINP)
Ms. A. Banerjee
(WBUT)
|
16
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
14
|
Demonstration of
Discovery Studio
|
Feb 11, 2011
|
Dr. Anand
Krishnamurthy (Accelrys Bangalore)
|
15
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
|
15
|
Genomics &
Proteomics
|
Mar 15 and 16, 2011
|
Prof. Debnath Pal
(IISc Bangalore)
|
19
|
DBT - BIF
Centre
(Dept of Bioinformatics)
|
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