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Ravindra Pushker

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Member since: April 25, 2005

I am a PhD Scholar in the Department of Bioinformatics at Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Ireland. Previously I have work as Bioinformatics Research Fellow at Evolutionary Genomics Group, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain. Visit www.pushker.org for more information about me.

Current address

Clinical Bioinformatics Lab, Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory
University College Dublin, Belfield
Dublin, Co Dublin
Ireland

Education

PhD in Bioinformatics
UCD CASL University College Dublin, Ireland
2006

Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
2001

Experience

Bioinformatics Research Fellow
Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain
2003 — 2006

Bioinformatics Software Developer
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India
2002 — 2003

Bioinformatics Project Trainee
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, India
2001 — 2002

Skills

C, CPP, PERL, PHP, Python, Java, SQL BioPERL, BioPython, Pascal, Visual Basic, Unix shell scripting Language
Javascript, CGI in C and Perl, ASP, LAMP (Open Source Web Platform)
HTML, DHTML, LaTeX
MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS Access
BLAST, FASTA, PSI-BLAST, CLUSTALX, CLUSTALW, GENEPARSER, DNASTAR

Activities

PLoS Indivisual Membership
IEEE Student Membership
ISCB Student Membership

Interests

Comparative Genomics
Genome Evolution
Phylogeny
HIV

References

Mira A., Pushker R. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2006) The Neolithic revolution of bacterial genomes. Trends in Microbiology, 14(5):200-206.

D'Auria G., Pushker R. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2006) IWoCS: analyzing ribosomal Intergenic Transcribed Spacer configuration and taxonomic relationships. Bioinformatics,

Mira A. and Pushker R. (2005) The silencing of pseudogenes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 22(11):2135-2138.

Pushker R., D'Auria G., Alba-Casado J.C. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2005) Micro-Mar: a database for dynamic representation of marine microbial biodiversity. BMC Bioinformatics, 6:222.

Pushker R., Mira A. and Rodriguez-Valera F. (2004) Comparative Genomics of Gene Family Size in Closely Related Bacteria. Genome Biology, 5:R27.

Other

Homepage: http://www.pushker.org

Micro-Mar: http://egg.umh.es/micromar

IWoCS: http://egg.umh.es/iwocs

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Micro-Mar database published in BMC Bioinformatics

URL: Micro-Mar: A marine prokaryotes database to correlate habitat with taxonomy