Current address:

Biomedical Informatics
17A Main Road, Thiru Panam Pakkam
Pondicherry 607 402

India

Education:

Ph.D
National University of Singapore
1998 - 2001

B.Tech
Anna Univeristy
1993 - 1997

Experience:

Professor NTU 2002 - 2006

Visiting Scientist Chiron Corporation 2001 - 2001

Scientist SBio Pte Ltd 2001 - 2001

Skills:

Bioinformatics

Biotechnology

Peptide vaccines

Genome Design

Protein Subunit Interactions

Activities:

Research in Bioinformation

50 Journal papers, book chapters in Bioinformatics and Biotechnology since 1999

ISCB, AAAS

www.bioinformation.net

www.biomedical-informatics.net

Interests:

Bioinformation science

Biotechnology

Molecular evolution

Immunology

Enzymology

References:

Zhao B, Mathura VS, Rajaseger G, Moochhala S, Sakharkar MK, Kangueane P. A novel MHCp binding prediction model. HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY. 64(12): 1123-1143, Dec 2003

Zhao B, Png AE, Ren EC, Kolatkar PR, Mathura VS, Sakharkar MK, Kangueane P. Compression of functional space in HLA-A sequence diversity. HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY. 64(7): 718-28, Jul 2003

Adrian PEH, Rajaseger G, Mathura V, Sakharkar MK, Kangueane P. Types of inter-atomic interactions at the MHC-peptide interface - Identifying commonality from accumulated data. BMC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. 2: 1-14, 2002

Kangueane P, Sakharkar MK, Kolatkar PR, Ren EC. Towards the MHC-peptide combinatorics. HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY. 62(5): 539-56, May 2001

Kangueane P, Sakharkar MK, Lim KS, Hao H, Lin K, Ren EC, Kolatkar PR. Knowledge-based grouping of modeled HLA peptide complexes. HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY. 61(5): 460-6, May 2000

Other:

Sakharkar MK, Chow VTK, Chaturvedi I, Mathura VS, Shapshak P, Kangueane P, A report on single exon genes (SEG) in eukaryotes. FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE, 9, 3262-3267, Sep 2004.

Sakharkar MK, Chow VTK, Kangueane P, Distributions of exons and introns in the human genome. IN SILICO BIOLOGY, 4, 0032, June 2004.

Sakharkar MK, Kangueane P, Genome SEGE: A database for 'intronless' genes in eukaryotic genomes BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 5(1): 67, June 2004.

Yiting Y, Chaturvedi I, Liew KM, Kangueane P, Sakharkar MK., Can Ends Justify the Means? Digging deep for human fusion genes of prokaryotic origin. FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE, 9: 2964-2971, Sep 2004.

James JJ, Lakshmi BS, Raviprasad V, Ananth MJ, Kangueane P, Gautam P, Insights from molecular dynamics simulations into pH dependent enantioselective hydrolysis of Ibuprofen esters by Candida rugosa lipase, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, 16, 1017-1024, Dec 2003.