I am presently working as a postdoc (Prof. Shankar Subramaniam's
lab) at University of California San Diego. My present work involves alignment, reconstruction and analysis of signaling pathways using molecule pages data of UCSD-Nature's the Signaling Gateway database. I am also working as a bioinformatics application developer in the same project.
I completed PhD (2003-2007) from University of Hyderabad,
India and during my PhD I worked with Prof. Chanchal K. Mitra. During Aug 2000 - Jan 2002, I was at Anna University,
studying and doing research for a Masters in Biotechnology (Identification of wolbachia bacteria in patients with bancroftian filariasis by
Wolbachia specific primers). At Anna, I was part of Prof R.B.Narayanan's research group. Before that, I was in University of Hyderabad for my MSc.
I also worked with Dr. Prasantha K. Panigrahi (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India) where we have used Wavelet transforms (Haar wavelets) to analyze genome sequences. My research interests are systems biological analysis of signaling and regulatory networks using computational approaches, data visualization, integration with external systems and data export in XML and BioPAX. Feel free to explore the website, and do not hesitate to contact me with questions and/or comments at ashokmtech@yahoo.com. (cont...)
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