M.Sc Bioinformatics

I am interested to work over sequence analysis, noncoding RNAs. It looks interesting to me to study how various components of a system can be given birth and as well as death to an entire circuit through Computational Biology/Bioinformatics based study and research. I am also interested in working with Next Generation Sequencing, Machine Learning and developing tools under Linux environment and perform system control.

miRNA target prediction, De novo transcriptome Assembly, Next Generation sequencing data analysis.

Publications:

1. miR-BAG: Bagging Based MicroRNA Identification.
   Ashwani Jha^†, Rohit Chauhan^†, Mrigaya Mehra^†, Heikham Russiachand Singh, Ravi Shankar* (Accepted: PLoS ONE)
   

2. De novo sequencing and characterization of Picrorhiza kurrooa transcriptome at two temperatures showed major transcriptome adjustments.
   Parul Gahlan^†, Heikham Russiachand Singh^†, Ravi Shankar¹*, Niharika Sharma, Anita Kumari, Vandna Chawla, Paramvir Singh Ahuja, Sanjay Kumar²*
   BMC Genomics, 13:126, March, 2012.
   

3. Flanking region sequence information to refine microRNA target predictions.
   Heikham R and Shankar R* J. Biosci. 2010 35 105-118.