Summer Bioinformatics program
A summer Research program in Bioinformatics Department Of NYU.Poly is venture initiated to foster the Graduate students for the industry centered skills. There is always a huge gap between the Academic training and industry requirements. The 12 week Research program is designed to bridge that gap by providing the students with an opportunity to work closely with faculty whose expertise is closely related to the students' academic interests and career goals. In general, every research program is two-fold: one on the side of the instructor or advisor and the other on the side of the students. The members of the group are ambitious graduate students. Specifically, the program offers students the opportunity to gain real-time problem solving ability, explore their career and academic opportunities. Tailor skills needed by the industry in solving a problem. Join a community of students and faculty who value diversity. Share in weekly social and professional networking sessions.
Goals
As an educational institution, the Polytechnic Institute of NYU thrives on its students and faculty diversity as well as its ability to address the technological and scientific issues faced by the industry at large. Given the unique relationship of both bioinformatics and computational biology among the various industrial sectors, our program focuses on.Creating students who will be well versed in Perl, MySQL and Linux. Designing and managing a webpage and a wiki site.•Successfully create relational database that will deal with and integrate multiple data types, extract as well as store information into the database and more.
Through guided and coordinated activity, the summer program provides the participants with the opportunity to master important & unique skills in the realm of bioinformatics & computational biology and contribute to projects that are a vital and realistic part of the academic experience/industrial experience. The program currently holds 6 graduate Bioinformatics student. The advisor is thus able to design a program according to the individual interests of each student. This makes the program unique compared to other summer research programs by providing many opportunities for team building along with culturally and socially enriching activities while being exposed to industry level hands-on research in a one-on-one relationship with the experts.
Project Design
The project involves developing a tool to compute the similarity and identity of the given sequence. The Smith waterman algorithm will be used for this tool. The perl scripts (with Catalyst) will be used for this project. The Entire Perl scripts will be broken-down into subroutines and each student will be responsible for one subroutine. In this manner every participant will have their own contribution to the tool, making it a perfect team work.
Students Involved
Ramya Thulasingam.
Ramya Thulasingam a Graduate student in bioinformatics. She likes to be called the “Perl scripter”. A versatile student with problem solving abilities, her main interest lies in Genomics. She is also involved in another project in the Human Genetics Lab in the New York medical center in Cancer Data analysis using the R programming language.
Alyza Skaist.
<p align="justify>Alyza Skaist is a Graduate student in bioinformatics. She is a strong analytical problem solver who possesses the communications skills to actively manage and work in cooperation teams and individuals to achieve desired goals. Her main interest is in the applications to pharmaceutical research.
Sharavan Kumar Graduate Student
Balakrishnan Graduate Student.
References
T. F. SMITH AND M. S. WATERMAN,Identification of Common Molecular Subsequences