AMUTHA R. Associate Professor

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  • Department of Bioinformatics
  • School of Life Sciences
  • amutha_ramu@yahoo.com, ramutha@bicpu.edu.in

Academic Activity

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Educational Qualification (UG,PG & Higher Order)

S.No Degree Subject/Title of thesis University/Board Year of Passing
1 Ph. D Physics University of Madras 2002
2 M.Phil Physics University of Madras 1997
3 B.Ed Physical Sciences Manonmanium Sundaranar University 1996
4 M. Sc Physics Manonmanium Sundaranar University 1995
5 B. Sc Physics Manonmanium Sundaranar University 1993

Area of Specializaion

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Awards / Prizes Conferred

S.No Name / Title of the Award Type Name of the Agency conferred the Award Year of the Award Amount for Cash Award
1 Best poster award INTERNATIONAL The Ohio State University, Ohio, USA 2004 500USD
2 N. N. Saha Award for best poster presentation NATIONAL Indian Biological Science Society 2002 0
3 Senior Scholarship NATIONAL Lady Tata Memorial Trust 2000 0

Teaching Experience

S.No Designation Department/Centre Institution
1 Assistant Professor Centre for Bioinformatics Pondicherry University
2 Associate Profesor Department of Bioinformatics Pondicherry University
3 Profesor Department of Bioinformatics Pondicherry University

Research Experience

S.No Designation Department/Centre Institution Area of Research
1 Project Assistanceship Chemical Laboratory Central Leather Research Institute Computational Biophysics
2 Ph D Chemical Laboratory / Central Leather Research Institute University of Madras, India Physics - Biophysics
3 Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh, USA Computational Biology
4 Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Biomedical Informatics The Ohio State University, USA Computational Biology
5 Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratory of Molecular Design, Center for Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular & Cellular Bioscie The University of Tokyo, Japan Computational Biology
6 Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Theoretical Chemistry Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Computational Biology

Industry Experience

S.No Designation Company/Corporate Nature of Work

Contribution towards Innovation

S.No Name of the Work/Contribution Specialization Remarks

Patent Details

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Papers Published in UGC Approved Journals

S.No Title Name of the Authors as per the order in Paper Journal Name Volume, Issue & Page Nos. Year Impact Factor
1 Structural dynamics of the RNA dependent RNA polymerase of H1N1 strain affecting humans: a bioinformatics approach M Samantaray, SS Pushan, M Rajagopalan, A Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 1-14 2023 4
2 Structure-based virtual screening of natural compounds against wild and mutant (R1155K, A1156T and D1168A) NS3-4A protease of Hepatitis C virus M Samantaray, R Pattabiraman, TPK Murthy, A Ramaswamy, M Murahari, S Krishna, S B Kumar Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 1-18 2023 4
3 Evolution of Indian Influenza A (H1N1) Hemagglutinin Strains: A Comparative Analysis of the Pandemic Californian HA Strain SS Pushan, M Samantaray, M Rajagopalan, A Ramaswamy Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 10, 1111869 2023 6.1
4 Ligand-based pharmacophore modeling and QSAR approach to identify potential dengue protease inhibitors AA Poola, PS Prabhu, TP Murthy, M Murahari, S Krishna, M Samantaray, Amutha Ramaswamy Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences 10, 1106128 2023 6.1
5 A Bioinformatics approach to the identification of novel deleterious mutations of human TPMT through validated screening and molecular dynamics Sidharth Saxena, T. P. Krishna Murthy, C. R. Chandrashekhar, Lavan S. Patil, Abhinav Aditya, Rohit Shukla, Arvind Kumar Yadav, Tiratha Raj Singh, Mahesh Samantaray & Amutha Ramaswamy Scientific reports Vol 12: 18872 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23488-z 2022 5.516
6 Identification of inhibitor against H. pylori HtrA protease using structure-based virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations approaches Nivedita Rai, R. Muthukumaran and Amutha Ramaswamy Microbial Pathogenesis 2018 May;118:365-377. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2018.03.027. 2018 2.332
7 Molecular dynamic study of TMPA mediated dissociation of Nur77-LKB1 complex Ikrormi Rungsung, R. Muthukumaran and Amutha Ramaswamy Comput Biol Chem doi: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2018.06.002. 2018 1.33
8 Molecular Dynamics of Interaction of Sesamin and related compounds with the cancer marker β-catenin/T-Cell factor 4 (Tcf4) complex: An In-silico st BinduMadhuri Cavuturu, Vishwambar Vishnu Bhandare, Ramaswamy Amutha and Neelakantan Arumugam, Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2018.1442250 2018 3.1
9 Effects of PJS causing missense mutations L67P, L182P, G242V and R297S on the structural dynamics of LKB1 (Liver kinase B1) protein Ikrormi Rungsung and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2018.1441070 2018 3.1
10 Molecular Dynamics of double stranded Xylo Nucleic Acid (XyloNA) Amutha Ramaswamy, Daryna Smyrnova, Mattheus Froeyen, Mohitosh Maiti, Piet Herdewijn, and Arnout Ceulemans J. Chem. Theory Comput Vol.13 (10), pp 5028–5038 2017 5.25
11 Dynamics of Liver kinase B1 in the presence of the allosteric activators, STe20 Related Adapterα and Mouse protein 25α: a molecular dynamics analysi Ikrormi Rungsung and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics Vol 35(5), pp. 1138-1152 2017 3.1
12 The proteinopathy of D169G and K263E mutants at the RNA Recognition Motif (RRM) domain of tar DNA-binding protein (tdp43) causing neurological disorde Vishwambhar Vishnu Bhandare and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics 2017 Apr 7:1-19. doi: 10.1080/07391102.2017.1310670 2017 3.1
13 Structural dynamics of nucleosome mediated by acetylations at H3K56 and H3K115,122 Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Ilya Ioshikhes, Amutha Ramaswamy Eur Biophys J Vol.46 (5), pp 471-484 2017 1.5
14 The conformational feasibility for the formation of reaching dimer in ASV and HIV integrase: a molecular dynamics study Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Ravi Shankar Bojja, Anna Marie Skalka, Mark D. Andrake & Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics Vol 35 (16), pp 3469-85 2017 3.1
15 Insights into the RNA binding mechanism of human L1 ORF1p: a molecular dynamics study Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian and Amutha Ramaswamy Mol Biosyst Vol. 13, pp 1728-1743 2017 2.78
16 Structural dynamics of Wild Type and Mutated forms of Human L1 Endonuclease and insights into its Sequence specific Nucleic acid Binding mechanism: a Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian and Amutha Ramaswamy J Mol Graph Model Vol.76, pp 43-55 2017 1.75
17 Identification of Potent siRNA Molecules for TDP43 Mutants causing Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis: a computational study Vishwambhar Vishnu Bhandare and Amutha Ramaswamy Computational Biology and Chemistry 61 (2016) 97–108 2016 1.12
18 Structural dynamics of human Argonaute2 and its interaction with siRNAs designed to target mutant tdp43 Vishwambhar Vishnu Bhandare and Amutha Ramaswamy Advances in Bioinformatics volume 2016 (2016), 13 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8792814 2016 0
19 Temperature dependent dynamics of DegP-trimer: a molecular dynamics study Nivedita Rai and Amutha Ramaswamy Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 13 (2015) 329–338 2015 4.148
20 Conformational Analysis on the Wild Type and Mutated forms of Human ORF1p: a molecular dynamics study Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian and Amutha Ramaswamy Mol. BioSyst 11, pp. 1987-1999 2015 3.18
21 Structural dynamics of native and V260E mutant C-terminal domain of HIV-1 integrase Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Computer Aided Molecular Design Vol. 29(4), 371-85 2015 3
22 The dynamics of interconverting D- and E-forms of the HIV-1 integrase N-terminal domain Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan and Amutha Ramaswamy Eur Biophys J Vol. 43(10-11), 485-98 2014 1.47
23 Pharmacophore based 3D-QSAR modeling and free energy analysis of VEGFR-2 inhibitors Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Amutha Ramaswamy and Premendu Prakash Mathur Journal Of Enzyme Inhibition And Medicinal Chemistry Vol 28, No:6 pp.1236-1246 2013 3.638
24 Pharmacophore Modelling and Electronic Feature Analysis of hydroxamic acid derivatives, the HIV integrase inhibitors Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan and Amutha Ramaswamy SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research Vol. 24(9), 753-771, 2013 2013 1.64
25 Solution Structure and Conformational Dynamics of Deoxyxylonucleic Acid (dXNA): An Orthogonal Nucleic Acid Candidate M Mohitosh; S Vanessa; A Mikhail; L Eveline; R Helmut; F Mathy; R Amutha; C Arnout; M Andreas; H Piet. Chemistry – A European Journal Vol 18, No.3, pp. 869-879 2012 5.8
26 Structural Dynamics Of Full Length Retroviral Integrase: a molecular dynamics analysis B. Sangeetha, R. Muthukumaran and R. Amutha Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics Vol 29, No. 6, 659-670 2012 3.1
27 Development of Anti-HIV Activity Models of Lysine Sulfonamide Analogues: A QSAR Perspective R. Muthukumaran, B. Sangeetha, R. Amutha and P.P. Mathur Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, Vol 8, pp. 70-82 2012 1.5
28 The helical structure of xylose-DNA Ramaswamy, Amutha; Froeyen, Mathy; Herdewijn, Piet; Ceulemans, Arnout Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 132, pp. 587-595 2010 14.0
29 Global dynamics of newly constructed oligonucleosomes of conventional and variant H2A.Z histone Amutha Ramaswamy and Ilya Ioschikhes BMC Structural Biology 7, 76 2007 1.77
30 Structural Dynamics of Nucleosome Core Particle: Comparison with Nucleosomes Containing Histone Variants Amutha Ramaswamy, Ivet Bahar and Ilya Ioschikhes Proteins: Structure,Function and Bioinformatics Vol.58, No.3, pp.683-696 2005 2.5
31 Bader’s and reactivity descriptors analysis on DNA base pairs Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian, Balachandran Unni Nair and Thirumalachari Ramasami J. Phys. Chem. A Vol.108, No.17, pp.3817-3828 2004 2.84
32 Role of twist and slide on the solvation of stacked cytosine dimer: an ab initio study Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian and Balachandran Unni Nair Theo. Chem. Acc. Vol.107, No.6, pp.343-350 2002 1.80
33 Free energy calculation for DNA bases in various solvents using Flory-Huggins theory Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian and Balachandran Unni Nair Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.335, No.5, pp.489-495 2001 2.0
34 Interaction of benzidine with DNA: experimental and modeling studies Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian and Balachandran Unni Nair Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.344, No.1, pp.40-48 2001 2.0
35 Effective atomic numbers and mass attenuation coefficients of some thermoluminescent dosimetric compounds for total photon interaction Shivaramu, Amutha Ramaswamy and Vaithyanathan Ramprasath Nuclear Science and Engineering Vol.132, No.1, pp.148-153 1999 0.44
36 Ab initio potential energy surface of Ne…CO complex Venkatesan Subramanian, Krishnaswamy Chitra, Dakshinamoorthy Sivanesan, Amutha Ramaswamy and Sambasivam Sankar Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.307, No.5, pp.493-496 1999 2.0
37 Assessment of importance of solvent in the calculation of condensed Fukui function: A self-consistent reaction field calculation study Dakshinamoorthy Sivanesan, Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian, Balachandran Unni Nair and Thirumalachari Ramasami Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.308, No.3, pp.223-228 1999 2.0
38 Hardness profile of Interaction of HF with He, Ne and Ar: Density functional and MP2 calculation Venkatesan Subramanian, Dakshinamoorthy Sivanesan, Amutha Ramaswamy, Jagnathan Padmanabhan and Thirumalachari Ramasami Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.294, No.4, pp.285-291 1998 2.0

Papers Published in Non UGC Approved Peer Reviewed Journals

S.No Title Name of the Authors as per the order in Paper Journal Name Volume, Issue & Page Nos. Year Impact Factor
1 A Bioinformatics approach to the identification of novel deleterious mutations of human TPMT through validated screening and molecular dynamics Sidharth Saxena, T. P. Krishna Murthy, C. R. Chandrashekhar, Lavan S. Patil, Abhinav Aditya, Rohit Shukla, Arvind Kumar Yadav, Tiratha Raj Singh, Mahesh Samantaray & Amutha Ramaswamy Scientific reports Vol 12: 18872 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23488-z 2022 5.516
2 Identification of inhibitor against H. pylori HtrA protease using structure-based virtual screening and molecular dynamics simulations approaches Nivedita Rai, R. Muthukumaran and Amutha Ramaswamy Microbial Pathogenesis 2018 May;118:365-377. doi: 10.1016/j.micpath.2018.03.027. 2018 2.332
3 Molecular dynamic study of TMPA mediated dissociation of Nur77-LKB1 complex Ikrormi Rungsung, R. Muthukumaran and Amutha Ramaswamy Comput Biol Chem doi: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2018.06.002. 2018 1.33
4 Molecular Dynamics of Interaction of Sesamin and related compounds with the cancer marker β-catenin/T-Cell factor 4 (Tcf4) complex: An In-silico st BinduMadhuri Cavuturu, Vishwambar Vishnu Bhandare, Ramaswamy Amutha and Neelakantan Arumugam, Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2018.1442250 2018 3.1
5 Effects of PJS causing missense mutations L67P, L182P, G242V and R297S on the structural dynamics of LKB1 (Liver kinase B1) protein Ikrormi Rungsung and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2018.1441070 2018 3.1
6 Structural dynamics of nucleosome mediated by acetylations at H3K56 and H3K115,122 Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Ilya Ioshikhes, Amutha Ramaswamy Eur Biophys J Vol.46 (5), pp 471-484 2017 1.5
7 The conformational feasibility for the formation of reaching dimer in ASV and HIV integrase: a molecular dynamics study Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Ravi Shankar Bojja, Anna Marie Skalka, Mark D. Andrake & Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics Vol 35 (16), pp 3469-85 2017 3.1
8 Insights into the RNA binding mechanism of human L1 ORF1p: a molecular dynamics study Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian and Amutha Ramaswamy Mol Biosyst Vol. 13, pp 1728-1743 2017 2.78
9 Structural dynamics of Wild Type and Mutated forms of Human L1 Endonuclease and insights into its Sequence specific Nucleic acid Binding mechanism: a Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian and Amutha Ramaswamy J Mol Graph Model Vol.76, pp 43-55 2017 1.75
10 Molecular Dynamics of double stranded Xylo Nucleic Acid (XyloNA) Amutha Ramaswamy, Daryna Smyrnova, Mattheus Froeyen, Mohitosh Maiti, Piet Herdewijn, and Arnout Ceulemans J. Chem. Theory Comput Vol.13 (10), pp 5028–5038 2017 5.25
11 The proteinopathy of D169G and K263E mutants at the RNA Recognition Motif (RRM) domain of tar DNA-binding protein (tdp43) causing neurological disorde Vishwambhar Vishnu Bhandare and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics 2017 Apr 7:1-19. doi: 10.1080/07391102.2017.1310670 2017 3.1
12 Dynamics of Liver kinase B1 in the presence of the allosteric activators, STe20 Related Adapterα and Mouse protein 25α: a molecular dynamics analysi Ikrormi Rungsung and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics Vol 35(5), pp. 1138-1152 2017 3.1
13 Structural dynamics of human Argonaute2 and its interaction with siRNAs designed to target mutant tdp43 Vishwambhar Vishnu Bhandare and Amutha Ramaswamy Advances in Bioinformatics volume 2016 (2016), 13 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8792814 2016 0
14 Identification of Potent siRNA Molecules for TDP43 Mutants causing Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis: a computational study Vishwambhar Vishnu Bhandare and Amutha Ramaswamy Computational Biology and Chemistry 61 (2016) 97–108 2016 1.12
15 Temperature dependent dynamics of DegP-trimer: a molecular dynamics study Nivedita Rai and Amutha Ramaswamy Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 13 (2015) 329–338 2015 4.148
16 Conformational Analysis on the Wild Type and Mutated forms of Human ORF1p: a molecular dynamics study Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian and Amutha Ramaswamy Mol. BioSyst 11, pp. 1987-1999 2015 3.18
17 Structural dynamics of native and V260E mutant C-terminal domain of HIV-1 integrase Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan and Amutha Ramaswamy Journal of Computer Aided Molecular Design Vol. 29(4), 371-85 2015 3
18 The dynamics of interconverting D- and E-forms of the HIV-1 integrase N-terminal domain Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan and Amutha Ramaswamy Eur Biophys J Vol. 43(10-11), 485-98 2014 1.47
19 Pharmacophore Modelling and Electronic Feature Analysis of hydroxamic acid derivatives, the HIV integrase inhibitors Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Muthukumaran Rajagopalan and Amutha Ramaswamy SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research Vol. 24(9), 753-771, 2013 2013 1.64
20 Pharmacophore based 3D-QSAR modeling and free energy analysis of VEGFR-2 inhibitors Muthukumaran Rajagopalan, Sangeetha Balasubramanian, Amutha Ramaswamy and Premendu Prakash Mathur Journal Of Enzyme Inhibition And Medicinal Chemistry Vol 28, No:6 pp.1236-1246 2013 3.638
21 Development of Anti-HIV Activity Models of Lysine Sulfonamide Analogues: A QSAR Perspective R. Muthukumaran, B. Sangeetha, R. Amutha and P.P. Mathur Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, Vol 8, pp. 70-82 2012 1.5
22 Solution Structure and Conformational Dynamics of Deoxyxylonucleic Acid (dXNA): An Orthogonal Nucleic Acid Candidate M Mohitosh; S Vanessa; A Mikhail; L Eveline; R Helmut; F Mathy; R Amutha; C Arnout; M Andreas; H Piet. Chemistry – A European Journal Vol 18, No.3, pp. 869-879 2012 5.8
23 Structural Dynamics Of Full Length Retroviral Integrase: a molecular dynamics analysis B. Sangeetha, R. Muthukumaran and R. Amutha Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics Vol 29, No. 6, 659-670 2012 3.1
24 The helical structure of xylose-DNA Ramaswamy, Amutha; Froeyen, Mathy; Herdewijn, Piet; Ceulemans, Arnout Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 132, pp. 587-595 2010 14
25 Global dynamics of newly constructed oligonucleosomes of conventional and variant H2A.Z histone Amutha Ramaswamy and Ilya Ioschikhes BMC Structural Biology 7, 76 2007 1.77
26 Structural Dynamics of Nucleosome Core Particle: Comparison with Nucleosomes Containing Histone Variants Amutha Ramaswamy, Ivet Bahar and Ilya Ioschikhes Proteins: Structure,Function and Bioinformatics Vol.58, No.3, pp.683-696 2005 2.5
27 Bader’s and reactivity descriptors analysis on DNA base pairs Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian, Balachandran Unni Nair and Thirumalachari Ramasami J. Phys. Chem. A Vol.108, No.17, pp.3817-3828 2004 2.84
28 Role of twist and slide on the solvation of stacked cytosine dimer: an ab initio study Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian and Balachandran Unni Nair Theo. Chem. Acc. Vol.107, No.6, pp.343-350 2002 1.80
29 Interaction of benzidine with DNA: experimental and modeling studies Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian and Balachandran Unni Nair Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.344, No.1, pp.40-48 2001 2.0
30 Free energy calculation for DNA bases in various solvents using Flory-Huggins theory Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian and Balachandran Unni Nair Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.335, No.5, pp.489-495 2001 2.0
31 Assessment of importance of solvent in the calculation of condensed Fukui function: A self-consistent reaction field calculation study Dakshinamoorthy Sivanesan, Amutha Ramaswamy, Venkatesan Subramanian, Balachandran Unni Nair and Thirumalachari Ramasami Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.308, No.3, pp.223-228 1999 2.0
32 Ab initio potential energy surface of Ne…CO complex Venkatesan Subramanian, Krishnaswamy Chitra, Dakshinamoorthy Sivanesan, Amutha Ramaswamy and Sambasivam Sankar Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.307, No.5, pp.493-496 1999 2.0
33 Effective atomic numbers and mass attenuation coefficients of some thermoluminescent dosimetric compounds for total photon interaction Shivaramu, Amutha Ramaswamy and Vaithyanathan Ramprasath Nuclear Science and Engineering Vol.132, No.1, pp.148-153 1999 0.44
34 Hardness profile of Interaction of HF with He, Ne and Ar: Density functional and MP2 calculation Venkatesan Subramanian, Dakshinamoorthy Sivanesan, Amutha Ramaswamy, Jagnathan Padmanabhan and Thirumalachari Ramasami Chem. Phys. Lett Vol.294, No.4, pp.285-291 1998 2.0

Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

S.No Title Name of the Authors as per the order in Paper Details of Conference Publication Page Nos. Year
1 Global dynamics of nucleosome arrays: Influence of variant histone H2A.Z Li wang, Amutha Ramaswamy and Ilya Ioschikhes Proc. IEEE 5th Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE’05) pp.271-275 2005

Books

S.No Title of the Book Name of the Authors as per the order in Book Publisher Year ISBN No.

Chapters in Books

S.No Title of the Chapters Name of the Authors Title of the Book Publisher Year ISBN No.
1 Biomolecular talks-Part1: a theoretical revisit on molecular modeling and docking approaches Ramaswamy AMUTHA, Balasubramanian SANGEETHA, Rajagopalan MUTHUKUMARAN Molecular Docking for Computer-Aided Drug Design: Fundamentals, Techniques, Resources and Applications Elsevier 2020 978-0-12-822312-3
2 Biomolecular talks - Part 2: applications and challenges of molecular docking approaches; Ramaswamy AMUTHA, Balasubramanian SANGEETHA, Rajagopalan MUTHUKUMARAN Molecular Docking for Computer-Aided Drug Design: Fundamentals, Techniques, Resources and Applications Elsevier 2020 978-0-12-822312-3
3 Bioinformatics Databases and Internet Resources R. Amutha, R. Muthukumaran and B. Sangeetha Agriculture Bioinformatics New India Publishing Agency 2015 978-93-83305-42-1
4 Dynamics of modeled oligonucleosomes and the role of histone variant proteins in nucleosome organization Amutha Ramaswamy and Ilya Ioschikhes Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology Academic Press 2013 978-0-12-410523-2

Edited Books

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Ongoing Projects

S.No Title of the Project Sponsored By Period Sanctioned Amount(Rs. Lakh) Year

Ongoing Consultancy Works

S.No Title of the Consultancy Work Sponsored By Period Sanctioned Amount(Rs. Lakh) Year

Completed Projects

S.No Title of the Project Sponsored By Period Sanctioned Amount(Rs. Lakh) Year
1 Role of Nucleoplasmin in the assembly of histone proteins and nucleosomes: A theoretical perspective UGC, India 2013 -2016 12,43,800/- 2013
2 The role of histone post-translational modifications in nucleosome structure: Applications of quantum / coarse grained / molecular dynamics approaches SERB 2012-2015 19,08,000/- 2012

Completed Consultancy Works

S.No Title of the Consultancy Work Sponsored By Period Sanctioned Amount(Rs. Lakh) Year

Career Guidance Offered to students

S.No Name of the Scheme No. of Students Competitive Examinations/ Career Counseling No. of Students Passed No. of Students Placed

List of capability enhancement such as Soft skill development, Remedial coaching, Language lab,
Bridge courses, Yoga, Meditation, Personal Counselling and Mentoring etc.,

S.No Name of the Programme/Scheme Date of Implementation No. of Students Enrolled Agencies Involved

Research Guidance - PG

S.No Year Degree No. of Students Awarded Department/Centre
1 2020 M.TECH 1 Department of Bioinformatics
2 2020 M.SC 3 Centre for Bioinformatics
3 2019 M.TECH 1 Centre for Bioinformatics
4 2019 M.SC 4 Centre for Bioinformatics
5 2018 M.SC 3 Centre for Bioinformatics
6 2018 M.TECH 1 Centre for Bioinformatics
7 2018 M.SC 3 Centre for Bioinformatics
8 2016 M.SC 2 Centre for Bioinformatics
9 2014 M.SC 3 Centre for Bioinformatics
10 2013 M.TECH 1 Centre for Bioinformatics
11 2012 M.SC 4 Centre for Bioinformatics
12 2011 M.SC 2 Centre for Bioinformatics
13 2010 M.SC 4 Centre for Bioinformatics
14 2010 M.SC 1 Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore

Research Guidance - Ph.D

S.No Student Name Registration Date Registration No. Thesis Title Thesis Submitted Status Thesis Submitted Date Vivavoce Completed Status Date Awarded
1 Nivedita Rai 13-08-2011 Dynamics of multitasking DegP and the role of HpHtrA as therapeutic target: a computational approach on HtrA family proteins YES 27-04-2017 YES 02-04-2018
2 Ikrormi Rungsung 13-08-2011 Structural Insights into the Regulatory Mechanisms Of Lkb1 By Stradα, Mo25α And Nur77: A Computational Approach YES 04-04-2017 YES 29-11-2017
3 R. Muthukumaran 25-07-2013 Mechanistic insights into the retrotransposition pathway mediated by LINE-1 proteins ORF1p and ORF2p YES 23-12-2016 YES 20-11-2017
4 Vishwamber Vishnu Bhandare 27-07-2010 Rational design and structural dynamics of possible siRNAs targeting ALS-associated mutants of tdp43 and their interaction with human argonaute2 protein: a computational approach YES 20-10-2016 YES 08-11-2017
5 B. Sangeetha 03-12-2009 Structure dynamics and inhibition of HIV 1 integrate: a molecular dynamics study YES 03-07-2014 YES 13-11-2015

Research Guidance - Post Doctoral

S.No Scholar Name Designation Funding Agency Fellowship Title Year of Joining Year of Completion

Financial assistance availed to attend conferences / workshops and to pay membership fee
of professional bodies during the year

S.No Conference/ workshop attended for which financial support provided Professional body for which membership fee is provided Amount of Support Place From Date To Date Year

E-Lecture Details

S.No E-Lecture Title Development of e-content/e-learning/delivering Member of Editorial Bodies Reviewer/Referee of
Content/Module Title Institution/Platform Year Weblink

Details of Online Education Conducted

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Invited Talks in Conference/Seminar/Workshop/Training Programme

S.No Title of the Paper Conferences/Seminar/Workshop/Training Programme Organized by Whether International / National / State / Regional / College or University Level From To Year
1 Bioinformatics in Interdisciplinary Research-Talk-II Online Faculty Development Programme (FDP) On Basics of bio-informatics E & ICT Academy, National Institute of Technology, Warangal.&University College of Engineering BITCa National 26-05-2021 26-06-2021 2021
2 Bioinformatics in Interdisciplinary Research-Talk-I Online Faculty Development Programme (FDP) On Basics of bio-informatics E & ICT Academy, National Institute of Technology, Warangal.&University College of Engineering BITCa National 26-05-2021 26-06-2021 2021
3 Genomics Science day Celebration Societe Progressiste Govt. Aided High School, Puducherry school level 29-02-2019 29-02-2019 2019
4 HIV-1 Integrase: A structural perspective from molecular dynamic simulations National Symposium on “Cross-talk in omics” Centre for Bioinformatics National 09-08-2017 09-08-2017 2017
5 The conformational relaxation of nucleosomes acetylated at H3K56 and H3K115,122 International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB 2016) A-Star, Singapore International 21-09-2016 23-09-2016 2016
6 Biomolecular Functional dynamics from theoretical perspective Seminar Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore International 14-01-2014 14-01-2014 2014
7 Structural Dynamics in Drug Design Structural Dynamics in Drug Design Centre for Bioinformatics National 14-02-2013 15-02-2013 2013
8 Application of Pharmacophore Based Approaches in Drug Design National cum workshop on “Prespectives of Chemoinformatics for Drug Discovery Centre for Bioinformatics National 21-02-2013 22-02-2013 2013
9 Exploring conformational dynamics of biomolecules Seminar Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR), Singapore International 04-01-2012 04-01-2012 2012
10 The Left Handed Xylose-DNA: an influence of sugar moiety on duplex DNA Chennai Chemistry Conference -2011 Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai National 11-02-2011 13-02-2011 2011
11 Functional Dynamics of Biomolecules: a perspective of normal mode analysis National Conference on Computer Aided Drug Designing SRM University National 24-03-2011 25-03-2011 2011
12 Coarse Grained Dynamics of Biomolecules National Seminar on Computational Biology Centre for Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University National 15-09-2010 17-09-2010 2010
13 The Helical structure of Xylose-DNA: a molecular dynamics approach 3rd National Symposium cum Workshop on Recent Trends in Structural Bioinformatics and Computer Aided Drug Design (SBCADD-2010) Alagappa University National 20-12-2010 22-12-2010 2010
14 Coarse Grained Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Understand Functional Dynamics of Biomolecules Seminar by Department of Biotechnology Department of Biotechnology, Pondicherry University University level 01-10-2009 01-10-2009 2009
15 Similarity search and sequence alignments Winter School On “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi at Bioinformatics Centre (DIC),Kerala Agricultura National 1-12-2009 21-12-2009 2009
16 Databases and internet resources for Bioinformatics Analysis Winter School On “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi at Bioinformatics Centre (DIC),Kerala Agricultura National 1-12-2009 21-12-2009 2009
17 Application of Bioinformatics in the field of nanotechnology National Symposium on Introduction to Nano Technology and Applications Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, A.V.C. College [Autonomous], Mayiladuthurai National 5-1-2009 5-1-2009 2009

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