Scientist [My IGIB Page]
GN Ramachandran Knowledge Center for Genome Informatics
Institite of Genomics and Integrative Biology
Research Interests: Computational Biology & Genome Informatics
Contact: Email/Gchat: vinods@igib.in Skype: vinodscaria

Lab Address: IGIB Extension Center at Naraina,
A93-94 Naraina Inds Area, Phase 1,Naraina, New Delhi -110 028, Ph- +91-11-25895615, 45073677/88/99 | Fax no: +91-11-2766 7471

Education
MBBS - Calicut Medical College (2004)
Pre Degree - St Joseph's College, Devagiri, Calicut (1998)
Schooling- Silver Hills Higher Secondary School, Calicut (1996), Eden School Calicut (1990), Canon Andrea Mwaka School, Dodoma (1989) .

Research Stuff
More on my Research Interests
RNA@IGIB portal for the noncoding RNA research group


Open Source Drug Discovery
Off late, I have been getting involved in the Open Source Drug Discovery Initiative under the CSIR. To know more about what we do, visit www.osdd.net
SysBorgTB is a Wiki based open Collaborative platform for Open Source Drug Discovery. It houses the genome-level datasets, collaborative tools and an Open Notebook application for sharing research data. URL:  http://sysborgtb.osdd.net


Web 2.0 and Semantic Webs for Genomic Data Integration

Wikis are excellent tools for Community Annotation of Biological Data. We have been using Structured Wikis for data curation and collaborative annotation of Genomes. See the Zebrafish GenomeWiki for an example. (in collaboration with Dr. Sridhar Sivasubbu, IGIB)


For Potential Summer Students
Interested Students may contact me by mail (see above)

Final Semester Understanding TB Exciting Opportunity for Summer Students who would like to be part of a global community trying to collaborate trying to understand the Biology of TB

Tweets4Tuberculosis is an innovative venture to aggregate collaborative annotation using social media to create annotation network of Tuberculosis

Whole Genome Sequencing Initiatives @ IGIB

First Indian Genome | Zebrafish Wild-type Strain
(in collaboration with Dr. Sridhar Sivasubbu, IGIB)
[ More on Indian Human Genome Sequencing Effort ]

Latest Publications Bargaje R, Hariharan M, Scaria V, Pillai B
Consensus miRNA expression profiles derived from interplatform normalization of microarray data.
RNA. 2010 Jan;16(1):16-25.

HUGO PASNPI Consortium^
Mapping Human Genetic History in Asia
Science 2009 (Accepted)

Roshan R, Ghosh T, Scaria V, Pillai B.
MicroRNAs: novel therapeutic targets in neurodegenerative diseases.
Drug Discov Today. 2009 Oct 9.

Kumar S, Ansari FA, Scaria V*
Prediction of viral microRNA precursors based on human microRNA precursor sequence and structural features.
Virology Journal 2009, 6:129

Bhardwaj A, Bhartiya D, Kumar N, Open Source Drug Discovery Consortium, Scaria V*
TBrowse: an Integrative Genomics Map of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis 2009 Aug 13 [Epub ahead of print]

Chhabra R, Adlakha YK, Hariharan M, Scaria V, Saini N
Upregulation of miR-23a~27a~24-2 Cluster Induces Caspase-Dependent and -Independent Apoptosis in Human Embryonic Kidney Cells.
PLoS ONE 2009 4(6): e5848

Hariharan M, Scaria V, Brahmachari SK .
dbSMR: A Novel Resource of Genome-wide SNPs affecting MicroRNA Mediated Regulation
BMC Bioinformatics 2009 Apr 16;10:108.

Faruq M, Scaria V, Singh I, Tyagi S, Srivastava AK, Mukerji M
SCA-LSVD: A repeat oriented locus specific variation database for genotype to phenotype correlations in Spinocerebellar Ataxias
Human Mutation 2009 Jul;30(7):1037-42.

Jadhav VM, Scaria V, Maiti S Featured Article
Antagomirzymes: Oligonucleotide enzymes specifically silence microRNA function
Angewandte Chemie 2009 48(14):2557-60. (*as communicating/co-communicating author)(^as member of consortium)