The Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), based in Chandigarh, India, is one of the constituent establishments of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR).
They include lab-to-pilot-scale fermenter of many capacities, tissue and cell culture facility, facility for maintenance, preservation and identification of micro-organisms, an animal house, workstations for bioinformatics and biocomputing, equipment for protein and DNA analysis, a library with around 64,000 references books, microscopy equipment, and databases for intellectual property management.
[1] The institute offers Ph.D. jointly with the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
[3]This came as a huge shock to the scientific community in India since CSIR and its constituent bodies are considered to be among the top research organizations in the country.
More than 150 free and open source software, databases and web-servers has been developed at the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh.