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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Tripathy, Sucheta , Ph.D
Faculty - Tripathy, Sucheta

Bioinformatics Team Lead

Phone: (540) 231-8138
Email: sutripa@vbi.vt.edu
Fax: 540-231-2606

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Professional Preparation

  • Center For Plant Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Ph.D, 1998
  • Utkal University Bhubaneswar, India, Botany with Genetics major, MSc., 1993
  • Software Technology, NCST, Mumbai,2000
  • Bioinformatics, DSQ Biotech, Chennai, India, 2000

Fellowships

  • 1993-1996  Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Junior research Fellowship, Govt. Of India;
  • 1996-1998  Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Senior research fellowship, Government of India;
  • 1994-1994  Graduate Aptitude Test For Engineers, Govt. of India;

Research Interests

  • Evolutionary relationship between micro organisms using genome signature.
  • Algorithm development for unravelling mystery of genomic DNA and cDNA.
  • Analyzing nextgen sequences leading to transcript and regulatory element discovery.
  • Biological database design and development of visualization tools.
  • Development of open source software tools for mining, integration, analysis and presentation of biological data.
  • Biomedical informatics.

Biography

Prior to joining VBI in 2002 Sucheta worked in two biotech companies as scientist, and also taught in Mumbai University as a lecturer.  Sucheta did her Ph.D in Plant Genetics with a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) junior and senior research fellowship. After completing Ph.D, she took software Technology training at National Center of Software Technology (NCST now cDAC), one of India’s  prestigious state run software Technology Institutes.

Sucheta’s research interests include computational analysis of genomes in predicting structural and functional elements ; tools and algorithm development in predicting coding regions combining various approaches such as coding potential and Hidden markov models; large scale data mining, creation of biological databases and viewers for visualization of data; development of new methods and algorithms for next generation sequence analysis and transcript discovery and open source development.

Selected Publications


Tyler BM, Tripathy S, Zhang X, et al. Phytophthora genome sequences uncover evolutionary origins and mechanisms of pathogenesis. Science (New York, N.Y.). 2006;313:1261–1266.

Jiang RHY, Tripathy S, Govers F, Tyler BM. RXLR effector reservoir in two Phytophthora species is dominated by a single rapidly evolving superfamily with more than 700 members. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008;105:4874–4879.

Maroof S M.A, Tucker DM, Skoneczka JA, Bowman B.C, Tripathy S, Tolin SA. Fine Mapping and Candidate Gene Discovery of the Soybean Mosaic Virus Resistance Gene, Rsv4. The Plant Genome. 2010;3:9.

Tripathy S, Pandey V, Fang B, Salas F, Tyler BM. Database: Mold Codes. Science. 2006;311:1685a.

Tripathy S, Pandey VN, Fang B, Salas F, Tyler BM. VMD: a community annotation database for oomycetes and microbial genomes. Nucleic acids research.. 2006;34:D379–81.