The Bioinformatics Centre at KAU, Thrissur was set up in 1995 as the 23rd Distributed Information Sub Centre (DISC) under the Biotechnology Information System Network (BTIS Net) programme, of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. The Centre was upgraded to DIC during 2004 with the objective to support Biotechnology research. The centre has shifted to new premises in September 2006 which also has facilities for wet lab work. The communication facilities at the centre is strengthened by the 3Mbps leased line internet connectivity from AIRTEL. The Centre conducts training programmes in Bioinformatics for scientists working in the University and procures databases in the field of Agriculture and related domains. A (2+2) credit course in Bioinformatics is offered to the Postgraduate students of Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology.  

• Raji Radhakrishnan.S, Keshavachandran.R, “Insilico Phylogenetic analysis and Homology modeling of DAT metabolic enzyme in Catharanthus roseus G.Don”. Paper presented in the National symposium on Bioinformatics, 1-2^nd February 2006 at College of Fisheries, Mangalore.

• Raji Radhakrishnan S, Snitha S and R. Keshavachandran., “In silico analysis of proteins of importance in Biocontrol agents”, Presented at the International Conference on Bioinformatics held on Dec 18th-20th, 2006 at New Delhi.

• Rejith kumar S.L  and R.Keshavachandran., “RiceInfo: Genetic database on Rice”. Presented at the 2nd International Rice Congress held at New Delhi on October 9th -13th , 2006.

• Rejith kumar S.L and R.Keshavachandran., SPICEINFO - A database on Indian Spices. Presented at the International Conference on Bioinformatics held on Dec 18th-20th, 2006 at New Delhi.

• Smitha Nair and R.Keshavachandran., Assessment of Genetic Variability in Chakkarakolli (Gymnema sylcestre R. Br) using Morphological and Biochemical markers., Journal of Tropical Agriculture. 44 (2006) 64-67.

• Smitha Nair and R.Keshavachandran., Molecular diversity in Chakkarakolli (Gymnema sylcestre R. Br) Assessed through Isozyme and RAPD analysis., 44 (2006)Journal of Tropical Agriculture .31-37.

• Sujatha R., Mallika V.K. and Nazeem P.A. 2006 Peroxidase polymorphism for fingerprinting of black pepper (Piper nigrum L.) varieties and micropropogated clones. Indian J. Genetics., 66(3): 261-262.

• Raji Radhakrishnan S, Snitha S and R.Keshavachandran., “In silico approaches to  study active compounds in medicinal plants”. Presented at the International Conference on Bioinformatics held on Dec 18th-20th, 2006 at New Delhi.

• Alishya Joy and and R.Keshavachandran., “Predicting functionally important residues in Cysteine Proteinases involved in Programmed Cell Death of plants”. Presented at the International Symposium on Structural Bioinformatics held on Jan 12^th, 2008 at Coimbatore.

• Reena.N and R.Keshavachandran., “In silico Analysis of Insulin like proteins in plants”. Presented at the International Symposium on Structural Bioinformatics held on Jan 12^th, 2008 at Coimbatore.

• Dileep K.V., Abhilash Joseph and R.Keshavachandran, “Imperativeness of Coronatine- Intensive 1 protein in Jasmonate signaling mechanism: A computational biology scenario”. Presented at the national Seminar on Advances in Structural and Functional Bioinformatics held on Jan 25^th, 2008 at Coimbatore.

• Abhilash Joseph., Dileep K.V and R.Keshavachandran, “In silico Modeling of N-acyl homoserine lactose (AHL) receptor for studying the interaction of AHL in Quorum sensing mechanism of Sinorhizobium meliloti”. Presented at the national Seminar on Advances in Structural and Functional Bioinformatics held on Jan 25^th, 2008 at Coimbatore.

• Remya C. Venu, R. Keshavachandran, Shidhi P R and Nancy Thomas, “A Computational Approach to Evaluate the Efficacy of Natural Antioxidants in Type II Diabetes”. Presented at Motif’09, National seminar held on Sep 17th, 2009 at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.

• Shidhi.P.R, R. Keshavachandran, Remya.C.Venu and Nancy Thomas, “Computational approaches to reveal the Anticancer property of Piper nigrum”. Presented at Motif’09, National seminar held on Sep 17th, 2009 at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.

• Nancy Thomas, R. Keshavachandran , Remya C Venu and Shidhi P R, “Novel Target and Emerging Remedies for Alzheimer’s disease”. Presented at Motif’09, National seminar held on Sep 17th, 2009 at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.

Broad Subject Area: It provides information on all Indian spices including black pepper, ginger, cardamom, vanilla, saffron, turmeric, clove, nutmeg etc . The ROM also have Search facility.

Broad Subject Area: It provides information on all aspects rice, it's cultivation, management and information on the research in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics area. Special reference to rice cultivation at Kerala.

Future activities would be to initiate Bioinformatics research in collaboration with Biotechnology, to create a digitized database of the existing data on crop germplasm in the university, to obtain copyright and update the existing databases. The Centre proposes to conduct training programmes for staff working in neighbouring institutions also. Other activities would be enabling of CD-ROM search facility locally on the databases developed for university level users, to enable an E print facility to act as a repository for research articles by integrating data generated from Biotechnology division and other affiliated research stations, development of teaching aids [practical manual] in Bioinformatics, Open source journal accessibility for M.Sc. students, and procurement of Books and Journals in Bioinformatics. Steps are being taken to introduce a course on Bioinformatics for PhD students for which the draft syllabus has been formulated and submitted for approval

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