Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad

RCB has a small but fully functional library at its present premises in Faridabad, NCR. RCB has procured several copies of standard international textbooks spanning various areas of biotechnology practiced by its researchers and taught in its coursework. At present, the RCB library houses 500 scientific textbooks and 100 administrative books in multiple copies.

Desktops/ Laptops, multifunction printers have been provided to the staff with internet connectivity. There are about 150 client machines with windows 7.0, Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X. There is a common Personal Computer in each lab for students to access various commercial off-the-shelf software such as Adobe Creative Suite 6, Systat 13, Sigma Plot, PyMol, Turnitin, Endnote x6, and Corel Draw Graphics Suite x6 for preparing manuscripts, various reports and presentations. Quick heal end point security total edition 6.0 has been implemented as protection from viruses, adware, spyware etc. Biometric Attendance System (BAS) has also been enabled for the staff, to register attendance by simply presenting his/her biometric (finger print).

The campus is fully covered by Wi-Fi through 50 wireless access points. Wi-Fi access is provided to internal users by media access control (MAC) address authentication and to visitors by separate guest accounts.

For automated crystallization, a TTP LabTech Mosquito robot is used for setting up crystallization drops. RUMED 300 series vibration free cooled incubators with humidity control are used for crystal growth. Linux-based workstations with stereo 3D capability for data processing, computing, model building and visualization are available for post-acquisition data analysis and model building.