dr. s .selvaraj

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Academic Profile of Dr. S. SELVARAJ

BIODATA............................................................................................................................................. 2

Academic qualifications starting from the highest degree(s) to Master’s Degree ................................ 2

Prizes, Medals, Awards, Honours received: ......................................................................................... 3

Professional experience ........................................................................................................................ 3

Research Guidance................................................................................................................................ 4

Research Projects .................................................................................................................................. 5

Travel abroad and purpose of visit: ...................................................................................................... 5

Subjects Taught (for M. Sc. and M. Tech. (6-year integrated) ............................................................. 6

List of Publications (including Scholar Google Citation details) ......................................................... 7

Papers presented in National / International Seminars, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops ..... 12

Organization of National Seminars ..................................................................................................... 19

List of Invited Lectures ....................................................................................................................... 20

Member of Board of Studies ............................................................................................................... 24

Participation in Workshops, Training Programmes, Refresher Courses etc. ...................................... 24

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BIODATA

1. Name (in block letters) & : Dr. S. SELVARAJ

Address for Official 101, Vignesh Aparna Apartment

Correspondence Near Bishop Heber College, Puthur

Tiruchirappalli 620 017

2. Date of Birth : 03 March 1955

3. Contact details : E-mail: [email protected]

Mobile: 9894390363

Academic qualifications starting from the highest degree(s) to Master’s Degree

University/College/

Institute/ School

attended

Degree/

Diploma

Certificate

awarded

Class/Division

Grade Point

Average

secured in the

examinations

Month

&

Year of

Passing

Major

Subjects of

Study

%

Average

of

All the

subjects

University of Madras Ph.D. ---- July

1990

Biophysics ----

Saha Institute of

Nuclear Physics,

University of Calcutta

Post M.Sc.

Associate

ship

Diploma

---- July

1978

Bioscience 53

School of Biological

Sciences, Madurai

Kamaraj University

M. Sc. First May

1977

Biology 63.7

Title of the thesis for the research degrees (Ph.D.):

Computational Studies on the Sequence and Structure of Lipid Binding Proteins (Supervisor:

Prof. P.K. Ponnuswamy)

mailto:[email protected]

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Prizes, Medals, Awards, Honours received: UGC Emeritus Fellow (2015-17)

National: DBT Biotechnology National Associateship Award for the year 1993-94 (1 year)

National: DBT Overseas Training Program to visit Swedish University of Agricultural

Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden in the year 1996 (3 months)

Collaborative Scientist, RIKEN Life Science Center, Japan during 1999-2001 (2 years)

University Second Rank Holder in M.Sc. (Biology)

Biographical profile selected for inclusion in the First Edition of Marquis Who is Who in

Asia (2007)

Invited to be a Mentor – for DBT STAR College scheme for three departments, viz.

Computer Science, Computer Applications, Information Technology, of PSGR Krishnammal

College for Women, Coimbatore.

Professional experience

i) Research Experience : ~27 Years (after obtaining Ph.D.)

ii) Teaching Experience : More than 10 years in the area of bioinformatics

iii) Areas of Research : Structural Biology &

Computational Biology

iv) Current topics of Research : Computational Analysis of

Protein Sequences and Structures – Protein –

DNA interactions – Protein Folding – Structure-

based inhibitor discovery-Development of

Bioinformatics Databases

Period

From –To

Post held

Name of the Institution/

College/University

Nature of Duties

21.05.2015 to

20.05.2017

UGC

Emeritus

Fellow

Department of

Bioinformatics

Bharathidasan University

Carrying out a specified research on

enzyme inhibitors discovery

01.01.2006 to

20.05.2015

Assistant

Professor

Department of

Bioinformatics


Teaching M. Sc. And M. Phil.

Bioinformatics Classes Guiding

Doctoral Research in Bioinformatics

11.02.2005 to

31.12.2005

Lecturer

Department of

Bioinformatics


Teaching M. Sc. And M. Phil.

Bioinformatics Classes Guiding

Research in Bioinformatics

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15.07.1999 to

13.07.2001

Collaborative

Scientist

RIKEN Tsukuba Institute,

Tsukuba, JAPAN

Research work on the Development of

a Protein – ligand Interaction

Database Protein-DNA recognition

22.09.1996 to

11.02.2005

8 Years and 4

months

Technical

Officer

(Special

Grade)

Department of Physics,


1) To support Department Research

2) Teaching Theory and Laboratory

Course in Biophysics

3) Organization of Seminars and

preparation of reports

29.09.1995 to

21.09.1996

~1 year

Graduate

Technician

(Special

Grade)



As above

29.09.1988 to

28.09.1995

7 years

Graduate

Technician

(Selection

Grade)






30.06.1994 to

29.06.1995

(on duty from

Bharathidasan

University)

DBT

National

Associate

Molecular Biophysics Unit

Indian Institute of Science,

Bangalore

Training and research in Protein

Crystallography and Bioinformatics

01.04.1982 to

28.09.1988

6 years 6

months

Graduate

Technician






29.09.1978 to

31.03.1982

3 years 6

months

Graduate

Technician


Autonomous P.G. Centre,

University of Madras,

Tiruchirappalli

As above

Research Guidance No. of Ph.D.s Completed : 05

No. Ph.D. Thesis submitted : 01

No. Ph.D. Guiding : 01

No. of M. Phil. Completed : 17

Name of the

candidate

Title of Doctoral Thesis Year of Award

Dr. B Harihar Long-range Interactions in Protein Structures December 2012

Dr. N Saranya Bioinformatics Studies on Understanding

Protein-Ligand Interactions

July 2013

Dr. K M

Saravanan

Inter-residue Interactions in Protein Structures March 2014

Dr. D Mary Bioinformatics Approaches for Analyzing December 2014

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Rajathei Internal Repeats of Proteins

Dr. S Usha Protein-Ligand Interactions and Structure-

Based inhibitor discovery

December 2015

Mrs.

Sugunakala

"QSAR, Virtual Screening and Docking Studies

on Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor

Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors”

Thesis Submitted

September 2016

Research Projects DST Project

Title: Inter-residue interactions in Protein Structure, Folding and Stability.

Amount: 18.23 lakhs

Sponsor: DST, New Delhi

Period: 2007 - 2010 + 1 Year Extension (2010-2011)

JST-DST Project (JAPAN-INDIA Collaboration Project)

Title: Multi disciplinary Research field which combines information and communications

technology with other fields - Research on the recognition mechanism for Biomolecular

complexes using Grid computing.

Amount: 8.4 lakhs

Sponsor: DST, New Delhi in Collaboration with Prof. B. Jayaram, Department of Chemistry,

Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi

Period: 2008 - 2011

Travel abroad and purpose of visit:

Country Visited From - To Purpose of Visit

Swedish University of

Agricultural Sciences,

Uppsala, SWEDEN

3 months

21.09.1996 to

19.12.1996

Overseas Training Program of the DBT

National Associateship

The Institute of Physical and

Chemical Research (RIKEN)

Tsukuba, JAPAN

2 years

15.07.1999 to

10.07.2001

Collaborative Scientist – Worked on the

development of a Protein-Ligand

Interaction Database (ProLINT)

Institute of Molecular Science,

Okazaki

JAPAN

8 days

04.03.2002 to

11.03.2002

To attend Okazaki Lectures, An

Asian Winter School on New Trends of

Biochemical Physics. March 8-11, 2002

at Institute of Molecular Science,

Okazaki, Japan.

Okinawa, JAPAN 9 days

11.10.2003 to

19.10.2003

To participated in International

Symposium on "New Horizons in

Molecular Sciences and Systems: An

integrated approach" October 16-18,

2003 at Okinawa, Japan.

Seoul, KOREA 6 days

18.09.2004 to

To attend the Fourth KIAS Conference

on Protein Structure and Function:

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24.09.2004 Theories and Computer Simulations of

Proteins. September 20-22, 2004 at Korea

Institute of Advanced Study, Seoul,

Korea

Tokyo, Japan 04.11.2008 to

07.11.2008

The 1st Japan-India Bilateral Symposium

on Bioinformatics held at AIST, Tokyo,

Japan

Tokyo, Japan 08.03.2009 to

20.03.2009

Visiting Researcher to the Molecular

Function team of Computational Biology

Research Center, Tokyo, Japan

Subjects Taught (for M. Sc. and M. Tech. (6-year integrated) 1. Bioinformatics Resources and Applications

2. Molecular Biology

3. Experimental methods for Biomolecules

4. Applied Bioinformatics

5. Structural Bioinformatics

6. Proteomics

7. Computational Biology

8. Drug Discovery

9. Biomolecular Structures

10. Metabolomics

11. Biophysics

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List of Publications

Citation indices All

Since

2013

Citations 2064 600 h-index 20 13 i10-index 37 21

For Google Scholar Citations please visit:

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=jirKh60AAAAJ&view_op=list_works

For Researchgate:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Selvaraj_Samuel/publications?sorting=recentlyAdded

Edited Research Book Gromiha MM, Selvaraj S (Eds.) (2002) Recent research developments in protein

folding, stability and design. Research Signpost, Trivandrum, India

Contribution to Book Chapters

S. Selvaraj, Bioinformatics – An Introduction in “Research Methods in Life Sciences” (A.

Singaravel and Chellam Balasundaram Eds.) UGC Academic College, Bharathidasan University,

ISBN 978-81-908597-1-4

S. Selvaraj, Protein Structure, Folding and Folding rate in “Advances in Biosciences” (A.

Singaravel, G. Archunan and R. Rajaram (Eds.), UGC Academic College, Bharathidasan University,

ISBN 978-81-908597-2-1

Research Publications (impact factors in parenthesis)

60. D Mary Rajathei and S. Selvaraj (2017) A web-database IR-PDB for sequence repeats of

proteins in the Protein Data Bank, International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in

Bioinformatics, 7(2) 1-10.

59. K.M. Saravanan and S. Selvaraj (2017) Comparative Analysis of Inter residue Contact Energy

Potentials with Surrounding Hydrophobicity Model, International Journal for Computational

Biology 6(1): 1-6

58. K.M. Saravanan and S. Selvaraj (2017) Dihedral angle preferences of amino acid residues

forming various non-local interactions in proteins, Journal of Biological Physics 43 (2) 265-278

(1.394)

57. S Sugunakala and S Selvaraj (2017) Identification of potential inhibitors of Epidermal Growth

Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase by Virtual Screening and Docking Studies,

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research 8 (3), 1264 (1.11) (projected)

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=jirKh60AAAAJ&view_op=list_works

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Selvaraj_Samuel/publications?sorting=recentlyAdded

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56. KM Saravanan, S Suvaithenamudhan, S Parthasarathy and S Selvaraj (2017) Pairwise contact

energy statistical potentials can help to find probability of point mutations, Proteins: Structure,

Function, and Bioinformatics 85 (1), 54-64 (2.499)

55. S Samuel and H Balasubramanian, (2017) Long-range contacts in unfolding of two-state

proteins. Protein and peptide letters 24 (3), 206-214 (1.069)

54. S Sugunakala and S Selvaraj (2016), 2D QSAR and Virtual Screening based on

Pyridopyrimidine Analogs of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase, Current

computer-aided drug design 12 (3), 229-240 (1.155)

53. S Usha and S Selvaraj (2016), Prediction of kinase-inhibitor binding affinity using energetic

parameters, Bioinformation 12 (3), 172-181(0.8)

52. K.M. Saravanan and S. Selvaraj (2015) Better theoretical models and protein design experiments

can help to understand protein folding Journal of Natural Science, Biology, and Medicine 6 (1),

202

51. N Saranya, KM Saravanan, MM Gromiha, S Selvaraj (2015) Analysis of secondary structural

and physicochemical changes in protein-protein complexes Journal of Biomolecular Structure

and Dynamics, 34 (3), 508-516 (DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2015.1050695) (2.3)

50. S. Usha and S. Selvaraj (2014) Structure-wise discrimination of adenine and guanine by proteins

on the basis of their nonbonded interactions, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics,

33 (7): 1474-1492 (2.3)

49. RD Mary, MK Saravanan and S Selvaraj (2014) Conservation of inter-residue interactions and

prediction of folding rates of domain repeats, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics,

33 (3) 534 – 551 (2.3)

48. S Usha and S Selvaraj. (2013). Structure-wise discrimination of cytosine, thymine, and uracil by

proteins in terms of their nonbonded interactions, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and

Dynamics. 32(10):1686-704 (2.3)

47. M Sivaji, V Sadasivam, J Narayanasamy, S Samuel and C Fan (2014) Detection,

Characterization and Evolution of Internal Repeats in Chitinases of Known 3-D Structure PloS one 9

(3), e91915 (3.234)

46. MR David and S Selvaraj. (2013). Analysis of sequence repeats of proteins in the PDB.

Computational Biology and Chemistry. 47, 156–166. (1.014)

45. KM Saravanan and S Selvaraj. (2013). Performance of secondary structure prediction methods

on proteins containing structurally ambivalent sequence fragments. Peptide Science. 100, 148-153

44. KM Saravanan and S Selvaraj. (2013). Search and Analysis of Identical Reverse octapeptides in

Unrelated Proteins. Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics. 11, 114–121. (0.661)

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44. N Saranya, J Jayakanthan and S Selvaraj. (2012). Impact of protein binding cavity volume

(PCV) and ligand volume (LV) in rigid and flexible docking of Protein-ligand complexes.

Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 22, 7593-7597. (2.486)

43. N Saranya and S Selvaraj (2012) An alphabetic code based atomic level molecular similarity

search in databases. Bioinformation. 8, 498-503 (0.8)

42. MR David and S Samuel (2012). Clustering of PubMed abstracts using nearer terms of the

domain. Bioinformation. 8, 20–25. (0.8)

41. B Harihar and S Selvaraj (2012), Role of long-range contacts and structural classification in

understanding the free energy of unfolding of two-state proteins. Current Bioinformatics 7 (2),

143-151 (0.77)

40. N Saranya and S Selvaraj. (2012). QSAR studies on HIV-1 protease inhibitors using non-linearly

transformed descriptors. Current Computer Aided Drug Design. Current computer-aided drug

design 8 (1), 10-49 (1.155)

39. KM Saravanan and S Selvaraj. (2011). Search for identical octapeptides in unrelated proteins:

Structural plasticity revisited. Peptide Science 98 (1), 11-26 (2.248) (Biopolymers)

38. B Harihar and S Selvaraj. (2011). Analysis of rate limiting long-range contacts in the folding rate

two state and three state proteins. Protein & Peptide Letters. 18, 1042 - 1052. (1.069)

37. N Saranya and S Selvaraj. (2011). Role of interactions and volume variation in discriminating

active and inactive forms of cyclin dependent kinase-2 inhibitor complexes. Chemical Biology &

Drug Design. 78 (3), 361-369 (2.802)

36. B Harihar and S Selvaraj. (2010). Application of long range order to predict unfolding rates of

two state proteins. Proteins: Structure, Function & Bioinformatics. 79, 880 - 887. (2.499)

35. KM Saravanan, B Harihar, N Saranya and S Selvaraj. (2010). Sequence and structural analysis of

two designed proteins with different folds and functions. Protein Engineering Design & Selection.

23(12), 911-918. (2.364)

34. MM Gromiha, S Selvaraj, B Jayaram and K Fukui. (2010). Identification and analysis of binding

site residues in protein complexes: energy based approach. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

6215, 626-633.

33. B Harihar and S Selvaraj. (2009). Refinement of the long-range order parameter in predicting

folding rates of twostate proteins. Biopolymers. 91, 928-935.

32. KM Saravanan and S Selvaraj. (2009). Analysis and visualization of long-range contacts in

homologous families of proteins. The Open Structural Biology Journal. 3, 104-125.

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31. N Saranya and S Selvaraj. (2009). Variation of protein binding cavity volume and ligand volume

in protein-ligand complexes. Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 19, 5769-5772. (2.486)

30. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (2008). Bioinformatics Approaches for Understanding and

Predicting Protein Folding Rates. Current Bioinformatics 3, 1-9. INVITED REVIEW. (0.77)

29. MM Gromiha , S Selvaraj and AM Thangakani (2006). A Statistical Method for Predicting

Protein Unfolding Rates from Amino Acid Sequence. J. Chem. Inf. Model 46, 1503-1508. (3.657)

28. MM Gromiha, AM Thangakani and S Selvaraj (2006). FOLD-RATE: prediction of protein

folding rates from amino acid sequence. Nucleic Acid Research. 34, W70-74. (9.202)

27. MM Gromiha, J Siebers, S Selvaraj, H Kono and A Sarai. (2005) Role of inter and

intramolecular interactions in protein-DNA recognition. Gene. 364: 108 -113. (2.319)

26. A Sarai, J Siebers, S Selvaraj, MM Gromiha and H Kono. (2005) Integration of Bioinformatics

and Computational Biology to Understand Protein-DNA Recognition Mechanism. Journal of

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 3:169 - 183. (0.931)

25. MM Gromiha, G Pujadas, C Magyar, S Selvaraj, and I Simon. (2004) Locating the Stabilizing

Residues in (α/β)8 Barrel Proteins Based on Hydrophobicity, Long-Range Interactions, and

Sequence Conservation. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics. 55: 316-329. (2.499)

24. MM Gromiha, JG Siebers, S Selvaraj, H Kono and A Sarai. (2004) Intermolecular and

Intramolecular Readout Mechanisms in Protein-DNA Recognition. Journal of Molecular Biology.

337: 285-294. (4.517)

23. S Selvaraj and MM Gromiha. (2004) Importance of hydrophobic cluster formation through long-

range contacts in the folding transition state of two-state proteins. Proteins: Structure, Function

and Bioinformatics. 55: 1023-1035. (2.499)

22. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (2004) Protein Folding Mechanism of all-β globular proteins.

Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 34:13-23. (1.114)

21. S Selvaraj and MM Gromiha. (2003) Role of Hydrophobic Clusters and Long-range Contact

Networks in the folding of (α/β)8 Barrel Proteins. Biophysical Journal. 84, 1119-1125. (3.632)

20. TS Kumarevel, MM Gromiha, S Selvaraj, K Gayatri and PK Kumar. (2002) Influence of

medium- and long-range interactions in different folding types of globular proteins. Biophysical

Chemistry. 99, 189-98. (2.363)

19. S Selvaraj, H Kono and A Sarai. (2002) (Communication) Specificity of protein-DNA

recognition revealed by structure-based potentials: asymmetric, cognate, and noncognate binding.

Journal of Molecular Biology. 322,907- 915. (4.517)

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18. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (2002) Important Amino Acid Properties for Determining the

Transition State Structures of Two-state Protein Mutants. FEBS Letters. 526, 129-134. (3.519)

17. A Sarai, MM Gromiha, J An, P Prabakaran, S Selvaraj, H Kono, M Oobatake, and H Uedaira.

(2002) Thermodynamic Databases for Proteins and Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions. Biopolymers.

61: 121-126. (2.248)

16. MM Gromiha, H Uedaira, J An, S Selvaraj, P Prabakaran and A Sarai. (2002) ProTherm,

Thermodynamic Database for Proteins and Mutants: developments in version 3.0. Nucleic Acids

Research. 30: 301-302. (9.202)

15. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (2001) (Communication) Comparison between long-range

interactions and contact order in determining the folding rate of two-state proteins: application of

long-range order to folding rate prediction. Journal of Molecular Biology. 310, 27-32. (4.517)

14. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (2001) Role of medium- and long-range interactions in

discriminating globular and membrane proteins. International Journal of Biological

Macromolecules. 29: 25-34. (3.138)

13. N Kannan, S Selvaraj, MM Gromiha and S Vishveshwara. (2001) Clusters (α/β) barrel proteins:

implications for protein structure, function and folding: a graph theoretical approach. Proteins:

Structure Function & Genetics 43, 103- 112. (2.499)

12. P Prabakaran, J An, MM Gromiha, S Selvaraj, H Uedaira, H Kono and A Sarai. (2001)

Thermodynamic database for protein-nucleic acid interactions (ProNIT). Bioinformatics. 17: 1027-

1034. (5.766)

11. S Selvaraj and MM Gromiha. (2000) Inter-residue interactions in Protein Structures. Current

Science. 78, 129-131 (0.833)

10. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (1999) Amino acid clustering pattern and medium and long-range

interactions in (α/β)8 barrel proteins. Periodicum Biologorum. 101, 333-339. (INVITED

ARTICLE). (0.152)

9. M. Michael Gromiha and S. Selvaraj. (1999) Influence of medium and long-range interactions in

protein folding. Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology. 29, 339-351. (INVITED

ARTICLE) (1.114)

8. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (1999) Importance of long-range interactions in protein folding.

Biophysical Chemistry. 77:49-68. (2.363)

7. S Selvaraj and MM Gromiha. (1998) Importance of long- range interactions in (α/β)8 barrel fold.

Journal of Protein Chemistry (The Protein Journal) 17: 691-697. (1.029)

6. S Selvaraj and MM Gromiha. (1998) An analysis of the amino acid clustering pattern in (α/β)8

barrel proteins. Journal of Protein Chemistry. (The Protein Journal) 17: 407-415. (1.029)

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5. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (1998) Protein secondary structure prediction in different structural

classes. Protein Engineering. 11: 249-251. (Short Communication). (2.364)

4. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (1997) Influence of medium and long-range interactions in (α/β)8

barrel proteins. Journal of Biological Physics. 23: 209-217. (1.394)

3. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (1997) Influence of medium and long-range interactions in different

structural classes of globular proteins. Journal of Biological Physics. 23: 151-162. (1.394)

2. B Prakash, S Selvaraj, MRN Murthy, YN Sreerama, DR Rao and LR Gowda. (1996) Analysis of

amino acid sequences of plant Bowman-Birk inhibitors. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 42: 560-

569. (1.847)

1.PK Ponnuswamy and S Selvaraj. (1992) Structural similarities in the repeat sequences of plasma

apolipoproteins, A-I, A-IV and E. Protein Sequences and Data Analysis. 5: 47-56.

REVIEW ARTICLES

7. M. Michael Gromiha, R. Nagarajan and S. Selvaraj (2017) Protein Structural Bioinformatics:

an overview in Chapter 20278, Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ELSEVIER)

in Press.

6. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj (2009). Proteins: computational analysis of structure, function and

stability. Wiley Encyclopedia on Chemical Biology. 4, 174-182. INVITED REVIEW.

5. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. Salient Features of Residue Contacts in Protein Structures for

Determining their Folding and Stability. in Protein Folding: New Research, Nova Publishers, Inc.

pp 249-265.

4. MM Gromiha and S Selvaraj. (2004) Inter-residue Interactions in Protein Folding and Stability.

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 86:235-277. (2.581)

3. A Sarai, S Selvaraj, MM Gromiha, and H Kono, Structure-Function Relationship in DNA

Sequence Recognition by Transcription Factors. In Conferences in Research and Practice in in

Information Technology, Vol.29. (Y-P. Phoebe Chen (Ed.), Australian Computer Society Inc.

2.S Selvaraj and MM Gromiha. Role of inter-residue interactions in the Folding of (α/β)8 barrel

proteins. In "Recent Research Developments in Protein Folding, Stability and Design" (Michael

Gromiha, M and Selvaraj, S. Eds.) pp. 57- 66, Research Signpost, Trivandrum, INDIA.

1. MM Gromiha and S. Selvaraj. (2000) Inter-residue Interactions in the Structure, Folding and

Stability of Proteins. Recent Research Developments in Biophysical Chemistry. 1:1-14.

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Papers presented in National / International Seminars, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops

Sl.

No Authors Poster/Oral Title

Name of the

Conference

Date &

Year Venue

1 PK Ponnuswamy

and S Selvaraj

Characteristics of

amphipathic helical

sequences of plasma

apolipoproteins

10th International

Biophysics Congress

July 29 -

August 3,

1990

Vancouver,

Canada

2 S Selvaraj and

PK Ponnuswamy

Diphtheria toxin

fragment B:

Prediction of

functional sites by

hydrophobicity,

secondary structure

and amphipathicity

analysis

National Symposium

of Biophysics

February,

7 – 9,

1991

Madras,

India

3 S Selvaraj

Identification and

characterization of

internal repeats in

apolipoprotein B-100

National Seminar on

Mathematical

modeling in Biology

and Chemistry

December,

17 – 20,

1991

Hyderabad,

India

4

B Prakash,

S Selvaraj,

MRN Murthy,

YN Sreerama and

D Rajagopal Rao

Initial

Crystallographic

investigations of

horse gram

Bowman-Birk

inhibitor

International Seminar-

cum-School on

Macromolecular

Crystallographic Data

November,

16 – 20,

1995

Calcutta,

India

5

P Prabakaran, J An,

MM Gromiha,

S Selvaraj,

H Uedaira, H Kono

and A Sarai

Thermodynamic

Database for Protein-

Nucleic Acid

Interactions

Genome Informatics 1999

Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

6 S Selvaraj Participant Symposium on

"Information Biology"

January,

17-20,

2000

Nagai

Memorial

Hall,

Shinjiku,

Tokyo

7

A Sarai, S Selvaraj,

P Prabakaran and

H Kono

Structure- specificity

relationship in

Protein-DNA

recognition

Third East Asian

Biophysics

Symposium

May,

22 -26,

2000

Kyongju,

Korea

8

S Selvaraj,

P Prabakaran,

H Kono and

A Sarai

Structure-specificity

relationship in

Protein-DNA

recognition studied

by structure-based

potentials

Joint Protein Meeting

2000 (51st Forum for

Protein structure, 12th

Annual meeting of the

Protein Engineering

Society of Japan, 7th

June,

7-10,

2000

Gakushuin

Centenary

Hall,

Meijro,

Tokyo,

Japan

14

Workshop on

Principles of Protein

Architecture)

9

P Prabakaran, J An,

MM Gromiha,

S Selvaraj,

H Uedaira, H Kono

and A Sarai

Thermodynamic


Nucleic Acid

Interactions





Protein Engineering


Workshop on


Architecture)

June, 7-10,

2000

Gakushuin

Centenary

Hall,

Meijro,

Tokyo,

Japan

10

H Uedaira,

MM Gromiha,

J An, H Kono,

M Oobatake,

P Prabakaran,

S Selvaraj and

A Sarai

Thermodynamic

database for proteins

and mutants:

Protherm Version2.0





Protein Engineering


Workshop on


Architecture)

June,

7-10,

2000

Gakushuin

Centenary

Hall,

Meijro,

Tokyo,

Japan

11

H Kubodera,

H Ueno,

M Kamizono,

M Okamoto, J An,

S Selvaraj,

P Prabakaran and

A Sarai

Development of

Protein-Ligand

interaction Database





Protein Engineering


Workshop on


Architecture)

June,

7-10,

2000

Gakushuin

Centenary

Hall,

Meijro,

Tokyo,

Japan

12

S Selvaraj,

H Kubodera,

H Ueno,

M Kamizono,

M Okamoto, J An,

P Prabakaran and

A Sarai

Development of a

Thermodynamic


Ligand Interactions.

CBI (Chem-Bio

Informatics Society)

Millennium

symposium on "Start

up to the 21st

Century"

July,

26 – 28,

2000

Japan

Pharmaceut

ical

Building,

Shibuya,

Japan

13

P Prabakaran, J An,

MM Gromiha,

S Selvaraj,

H Uedaira, H Kono

and A Sarai

Thermodynamic


Nucleic Acid

Interactions

CBI (Chem-Bio


Millennium

symposium on "Start

up to the 21st

Century"

July,

26 – 28,

2000

Japan

Pharmaceut

ical

Building,

Shibuya,

Japan

14

MM Gromiha,

J An, H Kono,

M Oobatake,

Recent

Developments of

ProTherm:

CBI (Chem-Bio


Millennium

July,

26 – 28,

Japan

Pharmaceut

ical

15

H Uedaira,

P Prabakaran

S. Selvaraj and A

Sarai

Thermodynamic

database for

Proteins and Mutants

symposium on "Start

up to the 21st

Century"

2000 Building,

Shibuya,

Japan

15


YF Wang, J An,

P.Prabakaran and

H Kono

Target Prediction of

Transcription Factors

and Its Application

to Genome Analysis


Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

16

MM Gromiha,

J An, H Kono,

M Oobatake,

H Uedaira,

P Prabakaran,

S Selvaraj and

A Sarai

Recent

Developments of

ProTherm:

Thermodynamic

Database for Proteins

and Mutants


Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

17

P. Prabakaran,

J. An,

MM Gromiha,

S. Selvaraj,

H. Uedaira, H Kono

and A Sarai

ProNIT:

Thermodynamic


Nucleic Acid

Interactions


Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

18

A Sarai,

MM Gromiha,

P Prabakaran,

S Selvaraj,

JG Siebers and

H Kono

Direct or indirect

readout mechanism

for protein-DNA

recognition

The 1st Annual

Meeting of the

Protein Science

Society of Japan 2001

June,

1 -3,

2001

Osaka,

Japan

19

S Selvaraj,

H Kubodera,

S Sunada, J An, and

A Sarai

Development of

Protein-ligand

interaction database,

ProLINT

The 1st Annual

Meeting of the

Protein Science


June,

1 -3,

2001

Osaka,

Japan

20

S Selvaraj,

H Kono and

A Sarai

Understanding

protein-DNA

recognition through

structure-based

potential:

asymmetric and

cognate/non-cognate

binding

The 1st Annual

Meeting of the

Protein Science


June,

1 -3,

2001

Osaka,

Japan

21


MM Gromiha,

JG Siebers,

P Prabakaran and

H Kono

Target Prediction of

Transcription

Factors: Refinement

of Structure-Based

Method


Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

22 MM Gromiha, Current Status of Genome Informatics 2001 Univ.

16

H Uedaira, J An,

S Selvaraj

P Prabakaran and

A Sarai

ProTherm:

Thermodynamic

Database for Proteins

and Mutants

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

23 S Selvaraj and

MM Gromiha

Prediction of the

folding rates of two-

state proteins using

the novel parameter

long-range order

Discussion Meeting

on Structural Biology

and Symposium on

Biophysics,

Department of

Crystallography and

Biophysics

January,

21 – 23,

2002

University

of Madras,

Chennai

24


MM Gromiha,

JG. Siebers,

P Prabakaran and

H Kono

Target prediction of

transcription factors:

Application of

structure-based

method to yeast

genome


Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

25

K Kitajima,

S Ahmad,

S Selvaraj,

H Kubodera,

S Sunada, J An and

A Sarai

Development of a

Protein-ligand

interaction database,

ProLINT and its

application to QSAR

analysis


Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

Japan

26 S Selvaraj

Participant

Okazaki Lectures, An

Asian Winter School

on New Trends of

Biochemical Physics

March

8-11,

2002

Institute of

Molecular

Science,

Okazaki,

Japan

27 S Selvaraj and

MM Gromiha

Inter-residue

interactions,

hydrophobic clusters

and long-range

contact networks in

the folding and

stability of (/)8

barrel proteins

International

Symposium on “New

Horizons in Molecular

Sciences and Systems:

An integrated

approach

October,

16-18,

2003

Okinawa,

Japan

28 MM Gromiha and

S Selvaraj

Influence of residue-

residue contacts in

protein folding

International

Symposium on “New

Horizons in Molecular

Sciences and Systems:

An integrated

approach

October,

16-18,

2003

Okinawa,

Japan

29

S Ahmad,

K Kitajima,

S Selvaraj,

H Kubodera,

Protein-Ligand

Interactions:

ProLINT Database

and QSAR analysis


Univ.

Acad.

Press,

Tokyo,

17

S Sunada, J An and

A Sarai

Japan

30 S Selvaraj and

MM Gromiha

Hydrophobic cluster

formation in the

folding transition

state of two-state

proteins

The Fourth KIAS

Conference on Protein

Structure and

Function: Theories

and Computer

Simulations of

Proteins

September

20-22,

2004

Korea

Institute of

Advanced

Study,

Seoul,

Korea.

31 S Selvaraj

Computational

analysis of kinase

inhibitor complexes

Theoretical Chemistry

Symposium 2006

December,

11-13, 2006

School of

Chemistry,

Bharathida

san

University,

India

32 S Selvaraj and

Gromiha MM

Inter-residue

interactions and

Prediction of

Folding/Unfolding

National Symposium

and Bioinformatics

February,

9-10,

2007

Osmanabad

,

Maharashtr

a

33 B Harihar and S

Selvaraj

Influence of local

and non local

interactions in

different structural

classes

National Seminar of

Bioinforamatics and

Computational

Biology

March, 21-

22, 2007

Annamalai

University,

India

34 S Selvaraj Kinase Inhibitors in

Drug DIscovery

Emerging Trends in

Biotechnology for

modern era

September,

29-30,

2007

Lattur,

Maharashtr

a

35 S Selvaraj

Prediction of binding

affinity for HIV-1

protease inhibitor

complexes.

The First Japan-India

Bilateral Symposium

on Bioinformatics

November,

6, 2008

Computatio

nal Biology

Research

Centre,

Tokyo,

Japan

36 S Selvaraj

Exploration of

alternate models to

predict protein

folding rates

National Symposium

on Cellular and

Molecular Biophysics

January,

22-24,

2009

Centre for

Cellular

and

Molecular

Biology

(CCMB),

Hyderabad

37 B Harihar and

S Selvaraj

Evaluation of the

robustness of long

range order

parameter in

predicting folding

rates of two state

National Symposium

on Cellular and


January,

22-24,

2009

Centre for

Cellular

and

Molecular

Biology

(CCMB),

18

proteins Hyderabad

38 N Saranya and

S Selvaraj


affinity for HIV-1

protease Inhibitor

complexes

National Symposium

on Cellular and


January,

22-24,

2009

Centre for

Cellular

and

Molecular

Biology

(CCMB),

Hyderabad

39 K.M. Saravanan

and S. Selvaraj

Inter-residue

interactions in

homologous family

of proteins

National Symposium

on Cellular and


January,

22-24,

2009

Centre for

Cellular

and

Molecular

Biology

(CCMB),

Hyderabad

40 S Selvaraj Deciphering the

protein fold code

International

Conference on

Physics-Biology

Interface (ICPBI)

December,

13-16,

2009

SAHA

Institute of

Nuclear

Physics,

Kolkatta

41 B Harihar and

S Selvaraj

Distribution of long

range order

parameter in four

major structural

classes of proteins in

SCOP database

International

Conference on

Physics-Biology

Interface (ICPBI)

December,

13-16,

2009

SAHA

Institute of

Nuclear

Physics,

Kolkatta

42 N Saranya and

S Selvaraj

Variation of protein

binding cavity

volume and ligand

volume in protein-

ligand complexes

International

Conference on

Physics-Biology

Interface (ICPBI)

December,

13-16,

2009

SAHA

Institute of

Nuclear

Physics,

Kolkatta

43 K.M. Saravanan

and S. Selvaraj

Inter-residue

interactions based

fold recognition

method

International

Conference on

Physics-Biology

Interface (ICPBI)

December,

13-16,

2009

SAHA

Institute of

Nuclear

Physics,

Kolkatta

44 S Selvaraj

Genome wide

analysis of protein

targets for 3D

structure modeling

and docking in

Clostridium

botulinum F

langeland

The Eighth Asia

Pacific Bioinformatics

Conference

January,

18-21,

2010

National

Centre for

Biological

Sciences

(NCBS),

Bangalore.

45 B Harihar and

S Selvaraj

Predicting the

folding rates of two

The Eighth Asia


January,

18-21,

National

Centre for

19

state proteins.

Analysis of rate

limiting long range

contacts

Conference 2010 Biological

Sciences

(NCBS),

Bangalore.

46 N Saranya and

S Selvaraj


affinity of Cyclin

Dependent Kinase-2

inhibitor complexes

The Eighth Asia


Conference

January,

18-21,

2010

National

Centre for

Biological

Sciences

(NCBS),

Bangalore.

47 K.M. Saravanan

and S. Selvaraj

Representation of

long-range contact

networks using

Cytoscape system

biology software

The Eighth Asia


Conference

January,

18-21,

2010

National

Centre for

Biological

Sciences

(NCBS),

Bangalore.

48 S Selvaraj

Analysis of binding

site residues in

protein-protein

complexes

2nd Indo-Japan

Symposium on

Bioinformatics

December,

10 -11,

2010

Indian

Institute of

Technolog

y, New

Delhi.

49 N Saranya and

S Selvaraj

Interaction pattern

analysis on Cyclin

dependent Kinase-2

inhibitor complexes

National Symposium

cum Workshop on

Recent Trends in

Structural

Bioinformatics and

Computer Aided Drug

Design

December,

20-22,

2010

Alagappa

University,

Karaikudi

Organization of National Seminars

Sl.

No. Event Organiser / Place Period / Duration

1

National Seminar on

Bioinformatics (NSB’09)

Dr. S. Selvaraj, Organizing

Secretary/ Department of

Bioinformatics,

Bharathidasan University,

Tiruchirappalli

23.02.2009 to

24.02.2009

2

National Seminar on

Bioinformatics (NSB’15)

Dr. S. Selvaraj, Organizing

Secretary/ Department of

Bioinformatics,


Tiruchirappalli

28.01.2015 to

29.01.2015

21

List of Invited Lectures

Sl.

No.

Name of the

Conference/Workshop/Seminar

Organizing

Institution

Date Title of invited lecture

delivered

01 A 5-Day National-level Training

Programme on

Thesis Writing: From Copper

Strip to Gold Bar

Centre for

Technical and

Academic

Writing

02.11.2017 Research Writing and

Excellence in

02 Science Academies Lecture

Workshop on Modern Trends in

Biology

Department of

Biotechnology,

Cauvery College

for Women,

Tiruchirappalli

21.09.2017 1:Tools of Bioinformatics

for proteomics

2:Tools of Bioinformatics

for drug discovery

03 DST sponsored National

Workshop on “Data Science

Research – Biological Data

Management

Centre for

Biodiversity

Informatics,

Department of

Botany, Jamal

Mohamed

College

(Autonomous),

Tiruchirappalli

24.01.2017 An overview of the tools

for mining PUBMED

04 DBT-sponsored workshop on

“Recent Trends in Molecular

Biology and Bioinformatics-

2016 (RTMBB -2016)”

Department of

Zoology, Lady

Doak College,

Madurai

07.01.2017 Molecular Interactions

in living systems: An

overview of

bioinformatics

approaches

05 Workshop on Biomolecular

Modeling and Dynamics

Bioinformatics

Infrastructure

Facility

Department of

Biotechnology

Lady Doak

College

Madurai

27.01.2016 Modeling and dynamics

of protein structures

(Inaugural address)

06 Training Programme on

Research Writing

Centre for

Technical

Writing and

Academic

Writing,

Department of

19.02.2015 Resources and Metrics

for Writing Research

Articles

22

English,

Bharathidasan

University,

Tiruchirappalli

07 National Symposium on

Advance Research in

Biosciences - 2014

PG and

Research

Department of

Biotechnology,

Bharath College

of Science and

Management,

Thanjavur

03.03.2014 From Genomes to

Proteomes: approaches

for understanding

structures

08 Training Programme on

Research Writing

Centre for

Technical

Writing and

Academic

Writing,

Department of

English,

Bharathidasan

University,

Tiruchirappalli

30.01.2014 Resources and Metrics

for Writing Research

Articles

09 5th National Symposium cum

Workshop on

"Recent Trends in Structural

Bioinformatics and Computer

Aided Drug Design"

[SBCADD'2013]

Department of

Bioinformatics,

Alagappa

University,

Karaikudi

19.02.2013 Importance of protein

binding cavity volume

and ligand volume in

docking and scoring

studies

10 National seminar cum

workshop on fundamentals of

Biochematics (Phytochemistry

and bioinformatics) (NSWFB

'13)

Department of

Bioinformatics,

Bharathiar

University,

Coimbatore

12.02.2013 Basic Tools and

Databases in

Bioinformatics

11 DBT sponsored National

Workshop on Protein Folding

and Molecular modelling,

Dynamics and Simulation

Bioinformatics

Infrastructure

Facility,

University of

Kalyani at

Department of

Biochemistry &

Biophysics,

University of

Kalyani,

Kalyani, West

Bengal

26.11.2012 “Protein Folding and

structure prediction:

two sides of the same

coin?”

23

12 National workshop on “Drug

discovery and Development”

(JeevDRUGS -11) on Nov 2nd

and 3rd, 2011 organized at

Department of

Marine

Biotechnology,

at NFMC,

Bharathidasan

University.

03.11.2011 Tools of bioinformatics

in Drug Discovery and

Development

13 Computational Tools for

Genome Resource Data

Analysis in Fisheries Domain”

National Bureau

of Fish Genetic

Resources,

Lucknow

13.10.2011 An overview of the

tools for proteomics

14 Structural Bioinformatics and

its applications Centre of

Excellence in

Bioinformatics,

Madurai

Kamaraj

University,

Madurai

07.09.2011 Long range order and

prediction of protein

folding/unfolding rates

15 IIT Madras – Tokyo Tech Joint

Workshop on Bioinformatics

and Large Scale Data Analysis

IIT Madras –

Tokyo Tech

15.07.2011 Analysis of identical

octapeptides in

unrelated proteins.

16 Short Term Course for

Research Advisors UGC Academic

College,

Bharathidasan

University

25.03.2011 Bioinformatics

17 Protein Interactions and

Dynamics School of

Bioscience and

Biotechnology,

VIT University,

Vellore

24.01.2011 Protein Folding and

Interactions

18 DBT sponsored Workshop on

Hands on Training for the

diagnosis of infectious diseases

by advanced molecular

biological methods using

leptospirosis as a model system

Department of

Microbiology,

Bharathidasan

University,

Triruchirappalli

620 024

13.12.2010 Drug discovery and

development

19 National Workshop on Protein

Folding

University of

Kalyani, West

Bengal

November,

23.11.2010

Protein Folding

Kinetics: Insights from

sequence and structure

20 National Workshop On Protein

folding and bioinformatics

Bose Institute,

Kolkatta

05.03.2008 Inter-residue

interactions in Protein

Structure and folding

kinetics

21 Lecture Workshop on Frontier

Topics in Physics NGM College,

Pollachi

22.01.2008 Introduction to

Biophysics

24

22 Trends in Biotechnology and

Bioinformatics Vivekananda

College

(Autonomous),

Madurai Dt.

19.12.2007 Genome analysis and

sequence alignment

23 National Conference on

"Emerging Trends in

Biotechnology for Modern

Era"

Department of

Biotechnology,

COCSIT

29.09.2007 Kinase Inhibitors in

Drug Discovery

24 Biomolecular Modeling: From

Drug Discovery to

Nanotechnology

Lady Doak

(Autonomous)

College,

Madurai

29.06.2007 Development of a

protein-ligand

interaction

database….drug

discovery

25 Hands on Training on

Bioinformatics: Tools and

applications

Department of

Biotechnology,

Lady Doak

College

(Autonomous),

Madurai

08.05.2007 Bioinformatics

Facility, Lady Doak

College

(Autonomous),Madurai

26 National Symposium on

Genomics, Proteomics and

Bioinformatics

Department of

Biotechnology,

Dr.Babasaheb

Ambedkar

Marathwada

University

Subcentre,

Osmanabad,

Maharashtra

09.02.2007 Inter-residue

interactions and

Prediction of

Folding/Unfolding

rates

27 National Seminar on Recent

Trends in Biotechnology

Srimad

Anadavan Arts

and Science

College,

Tiruchirappalli

30.09.2005 Protein Structure,

Folding and Folding

Rate

28 Seminar on Bioinformatics and

Computational Biology

Bioinformatics

Centre,

Pondicherry

University

18.02.2005 Approaches to Protein

Structure Prediction

and Their Applications

29 Symposium on Bioinformatics

Mother Teresa

Women’s

University,

Kodaikanal

28.08.2004

2004

Prediction and

Modeling of Protein

Structure

25

Member of Board of Studies

1. UG, PG, M. Tech. (Six-year Integrated), M. Phil. and PG Diploma programs in

Bioinformatics, Bharathidasan University

2. UG programme in Bioinformatics, Pondicherry University

3. Board of Studies in Zoology, Holy Cross College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli and Lady

Doak College (Autonmous), Madurai

4. PG Bioinformatics, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli

5. Biodiversity Informatics course, Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli

Participation in Workshops, Training Programmes, Refresher Courses etc.

Sl.

No. Event Organizer / Place Period / Duration

1 Laboratory Course in Molecular

Biophysics

Department of

Crystallography and

Biophysics, University of

Madras, Madras

2-22 April, 1979

2 Advance Level Training Course on

Electron Microscopy

School of Biological

Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj

University, Madurai

27 Sep.1982 to 16th

October 1982

3 Faculty Induction Programme Department of Educational

Technology, Bharathidasan

University, Tiruchirappalli

620 023

26&27 December,

2005

4 World Year of Physics (Seminar)



Tiruchirappalli 620 024

21&22 November,

2005

5 Refresher Courses/ Training

Programme

Orientation Course

UGC Academic Staff

College, Bharathidasan


620 023

10.05.2006 to

06.06.2006

6 Workshop on “High Performance

Computing”

CNLD, School of Physics,


Tiruchirappalli 620 024 and

C-DAC, Pune

6-9 August, 2007

7 ACCELRYS Workshop on

Receptor – Ligand Interactions

Holy Cross College

(Autonomous),

23-25 August 2007

26

with Discovery Studio, Tiruchirappalli

8 Refresher Course in Life Sciences

(Iinterdisciplinary)

UGC Academic Staff

College, Bharathidasan


620 023

10.06.2011 to

30.06.2011

9 SAKSHAM – IT Champion

Training Program

Sakshat-Microsoft


21.06.2012 to

30.06.2012

10 Refresher Course in

Biotechnology, Microbial

Biotechnology & Bioinformatics

(Interdisciplinary)

UGC Academic Staff

College, Bharathiar

University, Coimbatore 641

046

06.11.2014 to

26.11.2014

11 Workshop on "Computer-Aided

Drug and Biologics Discovery"

University Informatics

Centre (UIC) Bharathidasan


16.11.2015 to

17.11.2015

dr. s .selvaraj

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