Dr. G. P. S. Raghava

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Dr. G. P. S. Raghava Birth_place Uttar Pradesh, India
Residence India Nationality Indian Field Bioinformatics Work_Institution Institute of Microbial Technology Bioinformatics Center Religion Hindu

Dr. G P S Raghava is scientist and head of Bioinformatics center, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India (For detail Visit his home page.

Biography

Early years and education

G P S Raghava was born on ---- 19-- in Uttar Pradesh in nothern India.

Raghava completed his primary education from his native place (Vill. Nagla Karan, Dist. Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, India). He did his High School from Utravali-Mankpur in 1978 and Intermediate from Lakhoti in 1980. He did his Bachelors of science from N.A.S. College, Meerut, UP in 1982. His major subjects were Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. He did his Masters of Science from N.A.S. College, Meerut, UP in 1984 with physics as majors and did specilisation in Electronics. Then Raghava did his M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), New Delhi in 1986 with main subjects as Computer Applications, Microprocessor based systems and Computer Hardware/ software under the Energy studies. In 1996 he received his Doctrate degree from Institute of Microbial Technology and Panjab University, Chandigarh in area of Bioinformatics. His PhD work focuses on "Computer Aided Prediction of Protein Conformation from Amino Acid Sequences of Biotechnological Relevance" . He worked as a Post Doctrate Fellow (PDF) at Oxford university as well as at European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Cambridge, United Kingdom for two years (1996-98). During this period he developed number of web servers in area of computational biology particularly in Protein Modelling.

He joined IMTECH in 1986. His primary duty was to develop computer software, to maintain computer hardware/software and to maintain network at IMTECH. He become head of bioinformatics center in 19--. He is also looking after distributed information centre (DIC) supported by DBT under BTISNET programme, where his primary duty is to built/maintain infrastructure required for protein modeling and engineering. He is developing software in the field of bioscience since 1990.

IT Related Services

• Creation of new biological databases and to maintain local mirror of popular databases
• Maintain email, local area network and internet facilities at IMTECH
• Built and maintain infrastructure required to full fill IT (Information Technology) needs of IMTECH.

Research and Development

• Develop better methods for predicting structure of proteins from its primary structure particularly irregular secondary structure (e.g. Tight Turns)
• Annotation of genomes and comparative genomics particularly gene/repeat prediction
• Functional annotation and classification of proteins (e.g. Subcellular localization of proteins, classification of NR and GPCR)
• Identification of subunit vaccine candidates by developing better methods for epitope prediction (adaptive immunity) and adjutants (innate immunity)
• Participate in international competitions likes CASP, CAFASP and EVA

Acheivements

• Dr Raghava has published more than 90 research papers in reputed journals, developed 7 currated databases and more than 80 web servers, and 30 copyrights.
• Research fellowship (1984-86) was awarded by IIT Delhi, after qualifying national test GATE.
• BBSRC fellowship, funded by UK for postdoctoral studies at Oxford University, UK from 1996 to 1998. During this period I developed a number of web servers in the area of computational biology particularly in Protein Modelling.
• Invited by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, USA to establish Bioinformatics (http://bioinformatics.uams.edu/)
• Methods developed at group successfully participate and ranked in top methods in the world in international competitions like CASP, CAFASP and EVA. Protein secondary structure prediction server is always in top 5 servers in the world.
• Government of Korea offered Visiting Professorship for six months (March 2004 to August 2004) to initiate Bioinformatics activities at Pohang University of Science and Technolgy (POSTECH).
• Two curated databases (MHBN: MHC binders/non-bindedrs & BCIpep: B-Cell epitopes) have been developed by our group are distributed by European Bioinformatics Institute, UK (EBI).
• Raghava was a key figure in the development of BioSuite which is a bioinformatics software developed by TCS with experts in bioinformatics under NMITLI programmee. This package has been launched by HonÕble President of India Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, on 14th July 2004.
• In collaboration with private company Biomantra. We (Biomantra and IMTECH) developed a software package ÒVaxiPred: Computer aided vaccine designÓ, based on research carried out at my group. This package has been launched by Director General, CSIR Dr R A Mashlekar on 15th of December 2004.
• Reviewed more than 50 papers for reputed journals like NAR, Bioinformatics, proteins etc.
• Invited to revive papers submitted to ISMB 2005 and PSB 2006, projects submitted for grants etc.

Awards

• Dr Raghava got National Bioscience Award of year 2005-6 for carrier development of Department of Biotechnology (Govt. of India) New Delhi

Distinguished Positions

• He was elected as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences by "The National Academy of Sciences, India" for his excellent contribution in the field of Bioinformatics.
• Dr. Raghava is listed as a hot 100 authors by BioMed Central for his contributions
• Dr Raghava has H-index 22 in May 2008 as per google scolar . H-index is used to measure performance of a researcher.
• Associate Editor of BMC Research Notes.
• Member of Editorial Board of Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering.
• Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Sciences.
• Member of Editorial Advisory Board of journal Recent Patents on DNA & Gene Sequences

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