Research Area

Achievements in Bioinformatics

• The Bioinformatics Centre, Gauhati University has designed software for exploring the Turtles and Tortoises of Northeast India which has been communicated in IUCN Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter. The software is presently available in the form of CD, which will be upgraded as an online database resource very soon.
• Mr. Chittaranjan Baruah, a Research scholar associated with the Centre has presented Bioinformatics Research papers in the 19th All India Congress of Zoology held in Department of Zoology, Gauhati University (29th to 31st December,08) and in the 96th Indian Science Congress, NEHU, Shillong (3-7 January,09).
• Mr. Chittaranjan Baruah along with Dr. D.K. Sharma of the centre modelled important proteins from different organisms like Silk worm (Antheraea assamensis and Bombyx mori), Turtles, Zebra fish, Common carp, Bacteria and viral proteins from silk and HIV-2. 6 Models were deposited to RCSB-Protein Data Bank (www.rcsb.org/pdb)and 24 structures were deposited to Protein Model Database at University of Rome.
• Sequence analyses (DNA, RNA &Proteins) of biologically important molecules.
• Molecular phylogeny and Phylogeography of freshwater turtles of India