The Institute of Bioinformatics, often referred to as IOB, is an Indian not-for-profit academic research organization based in Bangalore, India.
[3] Renowned Proteomicist Akhilesh Pandey, Professor at Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Center for Individualized Medicine of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA is the Founding and current Director of IOB, and eminent Proteomicist Ravi Sirdeshmukh, Founder President of the 'Proteomic Society of India' is the current Associate Director of IOB.
[3] IOB is the first research institute globally which has been successfully able to decipher a nearly complete protein map of human beings.
In May 2014, the journal Nature published their volume putting this achievement of IOB with title 'The Human Proteome' in their cover.
According to Thomson Reuters, the paper "Human Protein Reference Database," published in 2009, was ranked second among the top 10 Publications with Indian Affiliation in the field of Biology and Biochemistry, and "A draft map of human proteome," featured on the cover of Nature in 2014, was found to be cited more than 400 times in a short period of time and was ranked sixth.