Gaurav Kumar

Current

• PhD Student in Chemistry and Biomolecular sciences at Macquarie University

Past

• Bioinformatician at Genseq
• Bioinformatician at Biobase
• Research fellow at UCD, Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland

• Master Student at NCBS, Bangalore

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Education

• Macquarie University
• NCBS-TIFR
• Patna University

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Industry

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Websites

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• My Company

Gaurav Kumar’s Summary

I develop information systems for the life sciences through integration and analysis of Biological data.

Gaurav Kumar’s Specialties:

Programming: Perl, Python,C, C++, Shell script,JavaScript
Markeup Language: HTML, XML and CSS
Statistical Tools: MatLab, R-Package, SciLab
Bioinformatics Tools: BLAST, Clustal-w, HMMER,Rasmol, Swiss PDB viewer and Other Bioinformatics web tools and databases

Gaurav Kumar’s Experience

• PhD Student in Chemistry and Biomolecular sciences

  Macquarie University

  (Research industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

• Bioinformatician

  Genseq

  (Biotechnology industry)

  October 2007 — June 2008 (9 months)

  Worked as a Bioinformatican for the development of Personal Genome Sequencing and Analysis, entrusted with the development of database design for storing SNP related client data. My work also involves spidering public databases (writing perl scripts for gleaning data on the web); web-development of www.myfamilyheath.com using Perl CGI Application, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and SQL (for handling back-end data from MySQL Database). I also developed small application for Mendelian based genetic-disease prediction using Bayesian probability model with Perl scripting language and R-package.

• Bioinformatician

  Biobase

  (Biotechnology industry)

  December 2006 — 2007 (1 year )

  I worked as a Bioinformatician, entrusted with the web-development of Integrated Product which is a comprehensive archive for displaying Biological information related with Transcription factors, Metabolic pathways, proteins and genes. I used web-technologies like Perl CGI, HTML and CSS. I also used SQL for handling back-end data from ORACLE and MySQL Databases. My work also involved extensive collaboration with other groups within this company for the analysis of biological data based on computational and statistical approaches.

• Research fellow

  UCD, Conway Institute, Dublin, Ireland

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  October 2005 — September 2006 (1 year )

  As a Bioinformatics Research student in the Enzyme group at Conway, UCD, Ireland, I was involved in the development of EATDB (Enzyme Analysis Tool and Database). EATDB is web enabled python software for archiving experimental data on enzymes.

• Master Student

  NCBS, Bangalore

  (Research industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

Gaurav Kumar’s Education

• Macquarie University

  PhD , Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences , 2008 — 2012 (expected)

  MQRES Scholarship to peruse PhD in Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences

• NCBS-TIFR

  MSc , Computational Biology , 2002 — 2005

  Master Thesis: "Biological Sequence Analysis for Protein Annotation based on Motif descriptor".
  
  Publication: "FASSM: Enhanced Function Association in whole genome analysis using Sequence and Structural Motifs.In Silico Biology. 2005 Oct 22; 5(4); Kumar Gaurav, Nitin Gupta and R. Sowdhamini.
  
  Master with first class in Life Science. Major in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Minored in Biochemistry and Biophysics, Physical Biology and
  Developmental Biology,

• Patna University

  BSc , Biotechnology , 1999 — 2002

  courses undertaken : Biochemistry, Microbiology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Biophysics, Immunology, Recombinant DNA Technology, Molecular Biology, Animal cell culture, Animal Biotechnology, Plant Biotechnology and Environmental biotechnology

Additional Information

Gaurav Kumar’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Gaurav Kumar’s Groups:

Genseq Sdn Bhd, C-2-11, SME-2 Technopreneur Center, Cyberjaya, Malaysia
Biobase Database India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
NCBS-TIFR Bangalore, Karnataka, India

•    Professionals in Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotech Industry
•    National Center for Biological Sciences Alumni
•    Loyola High School, Patna
•    Monte Carlo Simulation, Excel and Model Risk
•    Influence Diagrams, Belief/Bayesian Nets, Causality & Bayes Theorem
•    Life Science Job Opportunities

Gaurav Kumar’s Honors:

2008 – 2012: MQRES Scholarship to peruse PhD in Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
2005 – 2006: Science Foundation of Ireland Research fellowship
2002 – 2005: WelcomeTrust Junior Research Fellowship, MSc by Research

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