Bioinformatics - A Student's Companion

1. Nucleotide sequence analysis.- 2. Protein sequence analysis.- 3. Protein structure analysis.- 4. Protein-ligand interactions.- 5. RNA analysis.- 6. DNA marker analysis.

K. Syed Ibrahim is Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University. He received his PhD in Biotechnology from Alagappa University, Karaikudi. His fields of interest include protein expression and purification, microbial ecology, high throughput sequencing and data analysis.

G. Gurusubramanian is a Professor of Zoology at Mizoram University with more than 23 years of experience in teaching and research. He received his PhD in Zoology from the University of Madras, Chennai and served as Post Doctoral Humboldt Fellow at the Institut für Biologischen Pflanzenschutz, Germany. His contributions have been recognized with awards like Fellow of International Society for Ecological Communication, Poland, the Business Excellence Award from the International Business Council, and the Life Time Achievement Award from the Indian Compendium Bureau, New Delhi. He has published over 109 articles in leading peer-reviewed International journals, has contributed to two books published by leading publishers and holds four patents. He has been successful in attracting funding from various bodies like the UGC, DBT, CSIR and Central Silk Board as a Principal Investigator.Ravi Prakash Yadav is a Research Scholar at the Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University. He received his MSc Biotechnology from the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar (2010-2012). His fields of interest include Computational Biology/Bioinformatics and Cancer Genomics. Currently, he is working on the study of genomic alterations in cell cycle regulatory genes that result in tumorigenesis.