Low-cost sequencing has grown in demand over the years, and that has driven the development of high-throughput sequencing, also called next generation sequencing (NGS). In a parallel mode, millions of sequences are concurrently produced in a single next-generation sequencing run. NGS has become commonplace in Bioinformatics labs worldwide. Due to the commercialization of various affordable desktop sequencers, NGS has become within the reach of traditional wet-lab biologists. Not since quite long ago, genome-wide scale computational analysis is increasingly being used as a backbone to foster and nurture novel discovery in biomedical research. However, as the avalanche of sequencing output data increase exponentially, the analysis bottle-neck is yet to be solved.
NGS Data Analysis INTRO Talk
Seminar
1.5 hrs
February 10, 2018 11:00 am Saturday
Organizer
Praharshit Sharma
Praharshit Sharma is an alumnus of BITS Pilani, where He graduated with an Integrated M.Sc (Hons) Chemistry in 2011. He then did a Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics (2012) from IBAB- Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (Bengaluru) followed by a M.Sc Bioinformatics degree from SMU, Manipal (2013). Following this, he was a Department of Biotechnology (DBT, GoI)-funded Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL) New Delhi, industrial trainee in BioServe Biotechnologies, Nacharam (Hyderabad) immediately succeeded by Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)- Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Habsiguda (Hyderabad) project fellowship. For a short period of time, he was associated with Mapmygenome (HITEC city, Hyderabad) and Shodhaka Life Sciences (Bengaluru). The turning point in his Bioinformatics career happened – when he was 1 of 3 PhD students selected from India for the prestigious European Union funded Erasmus Mundus pre-Doctoral exchange scholarship in SGGW/ Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Poland), co-ordinated by Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), where he got a chance to visit 20 countries chiefly on Academic tours, inclusive of being an Invited TEDx (www.ted.com) invited Speaker in Skopje, Macedonia and the Only Indian Poster presenter and delegate in Russian Science Foundation's 15th Annual SocBin Conference (http://bioinformatics2016.fbras.ru/conference/program).
Upon his return to India, Praharshit served as a SRF: Senior Research Fellow in Indo-UK Cardio-vascular lab in Thrombosis Research Institute (TRI, Bengaluru) and now moved to Hyderabad to make himself available for Mentorship and Bioinformatics skill development activities for the people of his Land. Students/ Candidates interested to connect with Praharshit are encouraged to visit-
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kspsharma/