Meet the Team
Conceptualization
IndMDB was conceptualized by Dr. S.R. Rao, Vice-President (Research, Innovation and Development). Dr. S. R. Rao was a Visiting Scientist in Tottori University, Japan and Waite experimental station, Adelaide Government of Australia. He joined the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and technology, Government of India in 1989 and progressed to become Senior Advisor (Scientist H/Additional Secretary) to the Government of India. Currently, he is the Vice-President of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth (SBV) Deemed-to-be-University, Puducherry, promoting cutting edge research, innovation and interdisciplinary development in medical science.
Data Curation
The data entries for the database were retrieved from National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and were carefully curated by Mrs. Ramya Ramadoss, Technical Officer (Bioinformatics), MGMARI, SBV. She has more than 5 years of research experience acquired from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore and Carnegie Mellon University – Qatar (CMU-Q) in the fields of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Microbiome Research, NGS and Multi-Omics data analysis, Genome Assembly, and Protein Functional Bioinformatics.
Backend Support and Website Design
The backend support and website design for IndMDB was executed by Mr. Sriram Ramakrishnan, CDREaMS, SBV.
