Vasu Arora
Research Associate
vasu@iasri.res.in, aroravasu@gmail.com

Qualification

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• M. Phil. (Bioinformatics)
• M. Sc. (Bioinformatics)

Project

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• Centre for Agricultural Bioinformatics (CABin) Scheme (since February, 2015)
• National Agricultural Bioinformatics Grid in ICAR

Research Interest

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• Database Design and Management
• PHP-MySQL
• Perl Scripting
• Sequence Analysis

Important Publications

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• Sarika, Arora, Vasu, Iquebal, M.A., Rai, Anil and Kumar, Dinesh (2013). In silico mining of putative microsatellite markers from whole genome sequence of water buffalo (Bubalis bubalis) and development of first BuffSatDB. BMC Genomics, 14, 43.

• Iquebal, M.A., Sarika, Arora, Vasu, Verma, Nidhi, Rai, Anil and Kumar, Dinesh (2013). First whole genome based microsatellite DNA marker database of tomato for mapping and variety identification. BMC Plant Biology, 13, 197.

• Iquebal, M.A., Sarika, Dhanda, S.K., Arora, Vasu, Dixit, S.P., Raghava, G.P.S., Rai, A. and Kumar, D. (2013). Development of a model webserver for breed identification using microsatellite DNA marker. BMC Genetics, 14, 118.

• Iquebal, M.A., Sarika, Arora, Vasu, Rai, Anil and Kumar Dinesh. (2013). In-silico mining of microsatellite markers from goat whole genome and development of GoSatDb. Indian Journal of Animal Research.

• Poonam Chilana, Anu Sharma, Vasu Arora, Jyotika Bhati and Anil Rai (2013). Computational Identification and Characterization of Putative miRNAs in Heliothis virescens. Bioinformation, 9(2): 79-83.

• Sarika, Iquebal, MA, Arora, Vasu, Rai, Anil and Kumar Dinesh. (2015). Species specific approach for development of web-based antimicrobial peptides prediction tool. Computer and Electronics in Agriculture, 111, 55-61.

• Sarika, Arora, Vasu, Iquebal, M.A., Rai, Anil, and Kumar, Dinesh (2013). PIPEMicroDB: Microsatellite database and primer generation tool for pigeonpea genome. Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, Vol. 2013, Article ID bas054, doi:10.1093/database/bas054.

• Bajetha, Garima, Bhati, Jyotika, Sarika, Iquebal, M. A., Rai, Anil, Arora, Vasu and Kumar, Dinesh (2013). Analysis and functional annotation of expressed sequence tags of Water Buffalo. Animal Biotechnology, 24 (1), 25-30.

• Arora, Vasu, Sheoran, O. P. and Dalal, Sunita (2010). Computational Prediction of Putatitve MicroRNA Candidates in Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Plant Archives, 10(2): 933-940.

Conference Abstract

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• Vasu Arora, M. A. Iquebal, Sarika, C.S. Mukhopadhyay, Anil Rai and Dinesh Kumar (2013). In silico identification of putative microRNA from whole genome of sheep using machine learning techniques. First International and Third National Conference Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (28-29 June, 2013)

• M. A. Iquebal, Sarika, U. B. Angadi, Vasu Arora, Gaurav Sablok, Sunil Kumar, Anil Rai and Dinesh Kumar (2014), SBMDb: First whole genome based DNA microsatellite database of sugarbeet for bioenergy and industrial application. Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Converging Technologies Beyond 2020 (2CTB-2010) held during November 28-29, 2014 at University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana. Pp. 359