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Prof. Aditya Mittal

Coordinator

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Brief History of the Centre:-
SCFBio, IIT Delhi was created in 2002 with funding from Department of Biotechnology under the guidance of Principal Investigator, Prof. B. Jayaram with a vision to develop novel scientific methods and new softwares for genome analysis, protein structure prediction, in silico drug design and for human resource training. The facility was inaugurated on 31st July, 2002 by Hon'ble Minister of Science and Technology and Human Resource Development Shri Murli Manohar Joshi. IITD adopted SCFBio as a Central Facility of National Importance in March, 2003. SCFBio was upgraded to a multi Teraflop facility under the Programme Support from DBT and inaugurated on 17th Sept., 2009 by Hon'ble Secretary, DBT, Dr. M. K. Bhan. The aggregate compute power of the facility was over 6 Teraflops with a data storage of ~50 Terabytes. A modern data center was created to host the infrastructure. Subsequently, the facility was augmented with 10 Tera Flops of GPU based Cluster along with 150 Terabytes of Parallel File System Storage. The facility is connected via a 2 Mbps dedicated line which is upgraded recently to 30 Mbps. The facility has been recently augmented by a Liquid immersed cooling based system which is first of its kind in the country taking the overall compute capacity of the facility to around 60 Teraflops.

Approved Objectives of the Centre:-
1. To develop novel scientific methods and highly efficient algorithms, combining principles of Chemistry and Biology with Information Technology for Genome analysis, Protein structure prediction and target directed Lead molecule design pursuing the dream of SCFBio. Also to validate the computational approach, experimental/ Wet-lab testing will be done on the predictions emerging from the Computational tools and methods.
2. To create a pool of Bioinformatics Professionals in the country through its specialized training programmes.
3. Providing free access of its Bioinformatics and Computational Biology tools and resources to the global user community and free Supercomputing time to Students & Researchers with-in the country through remote access.