Your Passport to a Career in Bioinformatics

Dr. Prashanth N Suravajhala is currently working as a Senior Scientist at Birla Institute of Scientific Research (BISR), Jaipur. Previously, he has obtained a Ph.D. in Systems Biology. He has been involved in various projects specific to immunomodulatory/metabolic diseases and cancer biology. He has identified candidate genes using in silico approaches and provided a standard classification and scoring scheme for characterizing hypothetical proteins in vitro, specifically those that are targeted to mitochondria. More recently, his interests have expanded to transcriptomic profiling, functional proteomics and molecular genetics of cancer/diseasome approaches linked to evolutionary aspects in understanding functional aspects of regulatory genes, epigenomic profiling, miRNAs, and long non-coding RNAs. He is a founder of Bioclues.org, a not-for-profit organization through which he mentors bioinformatics graduates.  .

Chapter 1. Whither Bioinformatics?.- Chapter 2. Ten Reasons One Should take Bioinformatics as Career.- Chapter 3. Developing Bioinformatics Skills.- Chapter 4. The  Esoteric of Bioinformatics.- Chapter 5. Common Minimum Standards: A Syllabus for Bioinformatics Practitioners.- Chapter 6. Colloquial Group Discussion on Bioinformatics: Grand Challenges.- Chapter 7. The Bioinforma ‘TICKS’: Frequently Asked Questions.- Chapter 8. Undergraduate education in bioinformatics – progress and lessons learnt from an engineering degree.- Chapter 9. Engineering Minds for Biologists.- Chapter 10. Design Bioinformatics Curriculums Guidelines: perspectives.- Chapter 11. Machine learning for Bioinformatics.