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Among those who attended was Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair, Director, Centre forBioinformatics, University of Kerala, Dr. Anoop Kumar Thekkuveetil, Sree ChitraTirunal Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Dr. RoschenSasikumar, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIST),Mr. Ramkumar H & Ms. Reshmi G., Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) and Mr.Srijith V.M, Mr. Lijo Anto M.A & Mr. Vipin Thomas, of Suryakiran Bioinformatics.Various other dignitaries from engineering colleges also attended the session.
Satish Babu, President, Amarnath Raja, CEO, Rakesh Puri, Founding Partner, SreekanthKrishnan, VP, Bijoy Krishnan, Project Manager, Ms. Anjana C.N, Project Manager andMs. Rubina Mary Thomas, Quality Manager, from InApp, played host.
Dr. Achuthsankar S. Nair spoke on inter-relations between Bioinformatics,Computational Biology, Systems Biology, and highlighted the major opportunities inthese domains. He also elucidated more details of the basic premises in molecularbiology.
Amarnath Raja, Chair, IEEE Kerala Section & CEO, InApp, made a presentation on thefundamental propositions of Bioinformatics including basic definitions and thecentral dogma of bioinformatics. Srijith of Suryakiran Bioinformatics (SKB) made apresentation on SKB, its origins, current work, and future plans.
Dr. Anoop of SCTIMST spoke about the overall contours of these domains starting fromgenomics, and transitioning through published bibliography, to proteomics. He alsospoke about the ethical challenges in these disciplines.
Dr. Roschen Sasikumar, NIST, spoke about the need for modeling of cellularaggregations and studying the emergent properties of these systems. She mentionedthat it would be possible to explore the causative factors of conditions such ascancer through these studies. Mr. Ramkumar, RGCB, talked about the challenges thatusers of Bioinformatics software face, including the commercial-free software gapand the Unix-Windows gap, and also mentioned the opportunities in bridging thesegaps.
As an ending note, Dr. Achuthsankar suggested that this initiative be carriedforward in the form of a more permanent entity that would bring together individualswho were associated with these disciplines. The name proposed for the entity was Kerala Bioinformatics Society , which would be a not-for-profit entity with the aimof advancing the discourse of bioinformatics.
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