The Institute of Bioinformatics, often referred to as IOB, is an

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academic research organization based in

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, India. It is involved in research in the fields of

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, multi-omics,

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and

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. In 2002, the institute was set up by The Genomics Research Trust and the

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. This organization is recognized as a 'Scientific and Industrial Research Organization' (SIRO) of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research,

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. Renowned Proteomicist Akhilesh Pandey, Professor at Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Center for Individualized Medicine of

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is the Founding and current Director of IOB, and eminent Proteomicist Ravi Sirdeshmukh, Founder President of the 'Proteomic Society of India' is the current Associate Director of IOB.

Databases developed by IOB

Human Protein Reference Database The Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) is a protein database accessible through the Internet. It is closely associated with the premier Indian Non-Profit research organisation Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore. This database is a c ...

(in collaboration with the Pandey Lab,

) *

Human Proteinpedia Human Proteinpedia, which is closely associated with Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB), Bangalore and Johns Hopkins University, is a portal for sharing and integration of human proteomic data. It allows research laboratories to contribute and mai ...

* NetPath * India Cancer Research Database * Human Proteome Map * Plasma Proteome Database * Pancreatic Cancer Database * Resource of Asian Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases

Funding Agencies

IOB receives grants and fundings from various national and international funding agencies.

National funding agencies

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (IAST: ''vaigyanik tathā audyogik anusandhāna pariṣada''), abbreviated as CSIR, was established by the Government of India in September 1942 as an autonomous body that has emerged as the l ...

University Grants Commission (India) University Grants Commission (UGC) is a statutory body set up by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India in accordance to the UGC Act 1956 and is charged with coordination, determination and maintenance ...

Indian Council of Medical Research The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the apex body in India for the formulation, coordination and promotion of biomedical research, is one of the oldest and largest medical research bodies in the world. The ICMR is funded by the Gove ...

Department of Biotechnology The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) is an Indian government department, under the Ministry of Science and Technology responsible for administrating development and commercialisation in the field of modern biology and biotechnology in India. It ...

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International funding agencies

Human Proteome Organization The Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) is an international consortium of national proteomics research associations, government researchers, academic institutions, and industry partners. The organization was launched in February 2001, and it promotes ...

Others

* Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance

Affiliation

IOB is affiliated with

Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) is a private deemed university located in Manipal, India. The university also has campuses in Mangalore, Bangalore and Jamshedpur in India , and global campus in Dubai and Malacca (Malaysia). As of ...

(MAHE) for the award of

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degrees.

Achievements and global recognition

IOB is the first research institute globally which has been successfully able to decipher a nearly complete protein map of human beings. In May 2014, the journal Nature published their volume putting this achievement of IOB with title 'The Human Proteome' in their cover. On February 17, 2016, the

's Department of Science and Technology (DST) released "India's Research Landscape: Output, Collaboration, and Comparative Performance - Bibliometric Studies," which included two reports. The first report, titled "India's Research Output and Collaboration (2005-14): A Bibliometric Study," was compiled by

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, while the second report, titled "International Comparative Performance of India's Research Base (2009-14)," was independently compiled by

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. According to Thomson Reuters, the paper "

," published in 2009, was ranked second among the top 10 Publications with Indian Affiliation in the field of Biology and Biochemistry, and "A draft map of human proteome," featured on the cover of Nature in 2014, was found to be cited more than 400 times in a short period of time and was ranked sixth.

References

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