Good news for netizens!Netizens need no longer worry about the endless traffic jams and wait patiently in the queue for their turn to reach a website, as for the first time in the country, a mirror site which supplies the exact information available on the original one has been set up at the Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune.The centre will now offer the mirror site of the data base on protein/nucleic acid/three dimensional structure available at Brookhaven national laboratory, USA. Vice-Chancellor Dr Arun Nigavekar inaugurated the mirror site today at the Bioinformatics Centre.Explaining the concept of the mirror site, Centre's director Dr A S Kolaskar told The Indian Express that it comprised a set of programmes which allows one to have all the data and analysis tools as exactly available at the original site. Mirror sites are useful to cut down the traffic to the origibal website.The mirror site on the protein database will provide useful information to personnel working in the areas of drug design, new biomolecular designs and even research in bio-polymer structures. Users in India and Asia can now log on to our site and will have access to the identical information available at the original website, Kolaskar added.The Bioinformatics Centre provides up-to-date information in the area of biotechnology with a stress on virology, proteins and nucleic acid sequences and structures, microbial strain data and also an access to the other related areas through netwroks. In fact the Singapore national university has set up a mirror site of the Bioinformatics Centre's computerised animal virus data bank.Pedestrian killedBabulal Ismail Shaikh, a 50-year-old resident of Vallabhnagar area in Pimpri, was killed in a hit and run accident on the Mumbai-Pune highway late Tuesday night.
