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Nano-Informatics: Studies on Nano Information Platforms and Their Application in Various Sectors

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Nano-informatics is the interdisciplinary area that investigates the application of information technology on nanobiotechnological data. It is already known that nanotechnology has diverse application area in different industrial sectors such as agriculture, biomedical, pharmacy, etc. Basically nano-informatics deals with all “e-data” of nanomaterial from their properties, toxicity, and interactions with biological units. In this chapter, focus is given on the description of computational platforms dealing with nanotechnological data and how it can be helpful to the further research sector. Due to the less amount of nanotechnological data retrieval system, till now very few research are focused on nano-informatics, but as a subset of informatics technology, nano-informatics can be well- collaborated with material science, chemistry, biotechnology, nanotechnology, physics to make a new trend.

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Acknowledgement

The authors are grateful to the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra for providing infrastructure and financial support (Institute Research Fellowship) for executing the study.

Multiple Choice Question

  1. 1.

    Toxicity Database is

    1. (a)

      ISA-TAB-Nano

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      TOXNET

    3. (c)

      Nanomaterial Registry

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    ChemSketch is a

    1. (a)

      Modelling software

    2. (b)

      Docking software

    3. (c)

      Visualization software

Short answer type questions

  1. 1.

    Describe about ISA-TAB-Nano.

  2. 2.

    What is Molecular modelling?

  3. 3.

    What are the differences between bioinformatics and nanoinformatics?

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    What is molecular docking?

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    What are the various components of nanoinformatics?

Long answer type questions

  1. 1.

    What is Avogadro software? How it can be helpful in developing nanoparticle structure, describe with example.

  2. 2.

    Describe a docking software that helps in interaction studies of nanoparticles with another biological macromolecule.

  3. 3.

    Make a list of databases that provide information about nanoparticle and toxicity study.

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  1. Department of Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Koel Mukherjee & Madhubala Kumari

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

    Hrithik Bhadaria

  3. Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

    Santhosh Pillai

  4. ICAR-Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Biplab Sarkar

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    Avinash Sonawane

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Mukherjee, K., Bhadaria, H., Pillai, S., Kumari, M., Sarkar, B. (2023). Nano-Informatics: Studies on Nano Information Platforms and Their Application in Various Sectors. In: Sarkar, B., Sonawane, A. (eds) Biological Applications of Nanoparticles. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3629-8_10

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