Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava is an Indian bio-informatician and head of

computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and big data, the field also has fo ...

at the

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (''Iṃdraprastha Sūcanā Praudyōgikī Saṃsthān Dillī'', IIIT-Delhi or IIIT-D) is an autonomous State University located in Delhi, India. It is a research-oriented institute with a f ...

Personal

Early years and education

Raghava was born in village Nagla Karan,

Bulandshahr district Bulandshahr district (also spelled Bulandshahar) is a district in the Meerut region in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), situated between the two rivers Ganga and Yamuna. It is a part of the National Capital Region of India, and Bula ...

(UP), India in 1963. He completed his primary education from his native place

Bulandshahr Bulandshahr, formerly Baran, is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bulandshahr district and part of Delhi NCR region. According to the Government ...

and post graduation from

Meerut Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital ...

, UP in 1984. After completing his M.Tech from

Indian Institute of Technology The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are central government owned public technical institutes located across India. They are under the ownership of the Ministry of Education of the Government of India. They are governed by the Institu ...

, New Delhi, he joined Institute of Microbial Technology as a computer scientist. There he continued to work on various projects and became the head of Bioinformatics Centre in 1994. In 1996 he received a doctorate in bioinformatics from Institute of Microbial Technology and

Panjab University, Chandigarh Panjab University (PU) is a collegiate public state university located in Chandigarh, Punjab. Funded through both State and Union governments, it is considered a state university. It traces its origins to the University of the Punjab in Laho ...

Career and higher studies

Raghava joined the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh in 1986 as a computer scientist and developer. He is also coordinator of the distributed information centre supported by DBT under the BTISNET programme, where his primary duty is to build and maintain infrastructure required for protein modelling and engineering. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford university as well as at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) at Cambridge for two years (1996–98). During this period he learned and developed a number of web servers for application in

, particularly in protein modelling.

Achievements and awards

Raghava received the Young Leader Award in Science & Technology, Lakshmipat Singhania –

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National Leadership awards 2011 He was listed as one of eight highly cited Indians scientists by

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in 2014. He was awarded NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Awards, 2009 in Biological Sciences

presented him Research Excellence ~ India Research Front Awards 2009. He received the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

for 2008

Scientific Recognitions

*He was elected as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences by for his excellent contribution in the field of Bioinformatics. *He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Banglore for his excellent contribution in the field of Bioinformatics. *Raghava has H-index 44 and I10-indexmore than 100 in as per his Google scholar profile * He is member of editorial board of number of scientific journals.

Research interests

Raghava developed a method for calculating concentration of antibodies and antigens from ELISA data, and he a prediction method for protein secondary structure prediction. In 1999 he established his research group at IMTECH with emphasis on protein structure prediction and genome annotation. In 2001, his group also focused on "Computer aided vaccine design" with emphasis on subunit vaccine design. Since 2006, his group is trying to integrate bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, pharmaco-informatics and clinical informatics in order to develop a single platform for designing drugs in silico.

Web services and software

Raghava is an adherent of

public domain software Public-domain software is software that has been placed in the public domain, in other words, software for which there is absolutely no ownership such as copyright, trademark, or patent. Software in the public domain can be modified, distributed, ...

or open source software, and his group both uses and develops free software for academic use. Recently his group have initiated a web portal

Computational Resource for Drug Discovery (CRDD) Computational Resources for Drug Discovery (CRDD) is one of the important silico modules of Open Source for Drug Discovery (OSDD). The CRDD web portal provides computer resources related to drug discovery on a single platform. It provides comput ...

under

Open Source Drug Discovery Open Source Drug Discovery is a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (CSIR)-led Team India Consortium with global participation offering a collaborative drug discovery platform for neglected tropical diseases like leishmaniasis, w ...

Works

* OSDDlinux A customized linux operating system for drug discovery * GlycoEP : In silico Platform for Prediction of N-, O- and C-Glycosites in Eukaryotic Protein Sequences
PLoS ONE 8(6): e67008
* Lbtope: Improved Method for Linear B-Cell Epitope Prediction Using Antigen's Primary Sequence
PLoS ONE 8(5): e62216
* Open Source Software and Web Services for Designing Therapeutic Molecule * Freeware in Science A google plus community on Freeware in the field of Science. * HIVcoPred: A server for prediction of HIV coreceptor usage (CCR5). *TumorHPD: Computational approach for designing tumor homing peptides

* CellPPD: In silico approaches for designing highly effective cell penetrating peptides
Journal of Translational Medicine 2013, 11:74
. * MDRIpred : A web server for predicting inhibitors against drug tolerant M. Tuberculosis, published i
Chemistry Central Journal
* CancerDR: Cancer Drug Resistance Database.

* CSIR-Informatics Portal: Web Servers and software developed by CSIR, INDIA * ToxinPred: In Silico Approach for Predicting Toxicity of Peptides and Proteins

References

External links

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Google Scholar Profile

Scopus

ResearchGate Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Raghava, Gajendra 1963 births Living people Indian bioinformaticians 20th-century Indian biologists Indian medical researchers Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences People from Bulandshahr district Scientists from Uttar Pradesh N-BIOS Prize recipients Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science