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Training program on Application of Bioinformatics in Fisheries at ICAR-CIFRI

4^th February, 2025
ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute organized a 07-days training program on Bioinformatics Tools and its Application in Predictive Ecology and Fisheries for faculty, researchers, and students from 27 to 31st January 2025 at the headquarters of the Institute located at Barrackpore, Kolkata – 700 120, West Bengal. Dushyant Singh Baghel, MD and CEO of Nucleome Informatics inaugurated the program and emphasized the need to sequence and assemble a fish genome, which is essential in ecology and fisheries. Dr. B.K. Das emphasized that there has been a huge effort in the advancement of analytical techniques for molecular biological data over the past decade. This has led to many novel algorithms that are specialized to deal with data associated with biological phenomena, such as gene expression and protein interactions.

In this training program, information on novel bioinformatics tools along with their ‘crossover potential’ with an application to ecology and fisheries data are given. In particular, a focus is made on the development of models that identify functionally equivalent species in different fish communities to predict functional collapse. Various experts from the Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology and ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute were invited to deliver the lecture and give hands-on training on various techniques of bioinformatics. The participants were also given hands-on training on public databases, genome browsers, sequence retrieval, file formats, BLAST analysis, primer designing, and Sequencing Platforms with special reference to NGS and protein modeling. The workshop was attended by Faculties, UG and PG students, researchers, and faculties from the University of Burdwan, Wildlife Institute of India, Centurion University, College of Fisheries, Kishanganj, Bharathi Dasan University, Veer Narmada South Gujarat University and Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar. Dr. B.K. Das, Dr. V. Kumar, Dr. S. Roy and H.J. Chakraborty coordinated the workshop.