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An online database of plants in peninsular India
The Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, recently released a website which compiles peer-reviewed information on over 10000 species of plants. The website, which is free to access, was launched on 2 March 2019.
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DNA bank in Bareilly set to aid in wildlife conservation
Documenting the microbial diversity of North East India
Microbes are among the most dominant life forms and a majority of them are still unknown to us. Documenting these microbes is important to preserve their diversity and could also be of great value to biotechnology, environmental studies and conservation efforts. Towards this end, researchers from the North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, Meghalaya have created NEMiD, a web-based microbial diversity database which currently lists over 200 microbes found in soil samples from the Eastern Himalayas.
ReachPathways – A free application to retrieve processes a protein functions in
ReachPathways developed by the team of Babylakshmi M., Harsha Gowda and Joji Kurian at the Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore won the second prize in the competition Code for Science India conducted by Elsevier. The application allows one to uncover all the pathways a protein/gene might function in. ReachPathways is can be downloaded from Science Direct (http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/gallery) for free.