The Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, (An autonomus Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India) Takyelpat, Imphal was established in the year 2001 to carry out research and development work in basic and applied areas of bioresources conservation, management and utilization of the Indian region of Indo-Burma megabiodiversity hotspot for socio economic Development of the region. Presently Institute carries out research work in Plant, Microbial, and Bioresources database development of the North Eastern region.

The Bioinformatics Centre at the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development was established under Biotechnology Information System Network (BTISNet) of DBT in the year 2006. This centre is having a state of the art bioinformatics laboratory with all the necessary requirements like software, hardware and internet facilities for the researchers and students of the region. The centre is maintaining and developing a biodiversity database for the North East region on Flora, Fauna and Microbes of the region. Some training programmes have been successfully organised by the centre to train the teachers and researchers in the field of bioinformatics.