C-DAC bioinformatics facility in B’lore

PUNE: Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) will launch the Bioinformatics Applications and Resources Facility (BRAF) at C-DAC’s terascale Supercomputing Facility (CTSF), Knowledge Park at Bangalore on June 14. Department of IT (DIT) secretary, KK Jaswal will inaugurate the BRAF.

A bioinformatics discussion meet will follow the inaugural session. Eminent scientists from institutions such as IIT-Powai, CDFD, Hyderabad, NCCS, Pune, NCL, Pune, JNU, Delhi and NCBS, Bangalore will be participating in the meeting. This will be followed by demonstrations of available bioinformatics software that have been ported on the Param Padma, the one-teraflop

BRAF provides a high-end super computing facility to the bio-informatics research community with remote access to the existing bioinformatics software available on the Param Padma. The facility would be a unique platform to biologists, bio-technologists, chemists and other academic and industry people, to accelerate their research in areas such as molecular modeling, sequence analysis, comparative genomics, systems biology and microarray analysis.

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