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Dr. S. AYYAPPANSECRETARY & DIRECTOR GENERAL

GOVERNMENT OF INDIADEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH & EDUCATION

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INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCHMINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, KRISHI BHAVAN, NEW DELHI 110 001

Tel.: 23382629; 23386711 Fax: 91-11-23384773E-mail: dg.icar@nic.in

D.O. No. ICARJIASRIICABin-04(1)/15Dated the 27th April, 2015

Dear Colleague,

As you may be aware, the National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid(NABG) has been established in the country along with "AdvancedSupercomputing Hub for OMICS Knowledge in Agriculture - ASHOKA" at Centrefor Agricultural Bioinformatics (CABin) in ICAR-Indian Agricultural StatisticsResearch Institute, New Delhi under National Agricultural Innovation Project. Thisis a national facility dedicated to agricultural bioinformatics and computationalbiology. In order to provide access to this advanced computing facility toresearchers of NARES, a National 'Bio-Computing Portal(http://webapp.cabgrid.res.in/biocomp/) has been developed through whichauthenticated users will be able to perform their biological data analysis from theirrespective locations. This portal consists of number of agricultural bioinformaticsand computational biology software/ workflow/ pipelines which will be able toautomate routine biological analytics in seamless manner. Also, a SequenceSubmission Portal (http://webapp.cabgrid.res.inldnadb/) is being developedfollowing international standards to assist our researchers for submission of theirgenomic data sets obtained through biological experimentations.

Therefore, you are requested to circulate/ communicate this amongresearchers of your organization so that they can use these national facilities fortheir research work. This will help us in development of globally competitiveagricultural products, which may not only increase our agricultural productivity/exports, but also help in protection of our IPRI patents/ copyrights. Detailed stepsto use this on-line facility are enclosed with this letter. In case you have anyclarification, the Director, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi (director@iasri.res.in) or Head(CABin) (hd.cabin(q)iasri.res.in, biocomp((j!jasri.res.in) may be contacted.

With regards,

YOunincerely,

~(s. Ayyappan )

Encls.: As above.

Distribution:

1. Vice Chancellors of Agricultural Universities2. Directors of ICAR Institutes / NRCs !Directorates / Bureaux

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Advanced Supercomputing Hub for OMICS Knowledge

in Agriculture

Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics ICAR - Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute

Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi - 110012 (INDIA) website: www.cabgrid.res.in

Help to Access Bio-computing Services

(http://cabgrid.res.in/cabin/files/nabc-portal.pdf)

In order to access ASHOKA Bio-computing Portal/Resources, The user can visit through URL:

http://webapp.cabgrid.res.in/biocomp or via IASRI (http://iasri.res.in/) website and CABin

(http://cabgrid.res.in/cabin/) Website as screenshot given below :

Complete document for step wise help to get the access of all services of National

Agricultural Biocomputing Portal has been provided through following URL

(http://cabgrid.res.in/cabin/files/nabc-portal.pdf)

CABin website: http://cabgrid.res.in/cabin/ IASRI website: http://www.iasri.res.in/