Progress Report (2010) of Mr.

Vinay Kumar Singh

Centre for Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu

University, Varanasi-221005
To Coordinator: Dr. Anil K. Tripathi

Major activities of the centre during the year 2009-10

International Research Papers:

1. In silico characterization of pectate lyase protein sequences from different source organisms
(2010) Amit Kumar Dubey, Sangeeta Yadav, Manish Kumar,Vinay Kumar Singh, Bijaya Ketan
Sarangi and Dinesh Yadav. Enzyme Research doi:10.4061/2010/9502230

2. Alpha-Amylase from germinating soybean (Glycine max) seeds - Purification, characterization

and sequential similarity of conserved and catalytic amino acid residues (2010) Kumari A, Singh
VK, Fitter J, Polen T, Kayastha AM. Phytochemistry (71): 1657-1666.

National Research Papers:

1. Classification of Rice Seed Storage Proteins using Neural Networks (2010) Soma Marla , Deeksha
Bharatiya, Madhu Bala, Vinay Singh and Anil Kumar J. Plant Biochemistry & Biotechnology Vol.
19(1), 123-126.

Conference proceedings as full papers:

1. In silico prediction of DNA binding with one finger (DOF) transcription factor genes in Sorghum
bicolor (2010) Hariom Kushwaha, Subhra Gupta, Deepshikha Mishra, Vinay K Singh and Dinesh
Yadav published in MNIT conference proceeding 73-79.

Abstract published: (Poster Presentation)

1. Ab initio modeling of dna binding with one finger (dof) Transcription factor protein of sorghum
bicolor by iterative Tasser simulations
Vinay Kumar Singh, Hariom Kushwaha and Dinesh Yadav
Published in 6th Solanaceae Genome Workshop
Page no. 217.

2. In silico prediction of dna binding with one finger (dof) transcription factor genes in solanum
tuberosum and lycopersicon esculentum
Vinay Kumar Singh, Hariom Kushwaha and Dinesh Yadav
Published in 6th Solanaceae Genome Workshop
Page no. 218
 3. In Silico Prediction of DNA Binding with one Finger (Dof) Transcription Factor Genes in Sorghum
bicolor
Hariom Kushwaha, Shubhra Gupta, Deepshikha Mishra, Vinay K Singh and Dinesh Yadav
Published in Bioprospecting: Access for sustainable development
Page no.73

4. Prediction of transmembrane proteins using Hidden Morkov model on MATLAB platform (2009)
Navneet chaturvedi, Suddanshu Shanker, P.N. Pandey and Vinay Kumar Singh
Published in Emerging Trends in Biotechnology (ETBT-2009)
Page no.266

Sequence Submitted in NCBI/DDBJ/EMBL

1. 01 alpha- amylase (GmAMY1) gene from Glycine max.

Kumari,A., Singh,V.K. and Kayastha,A.
Acc. No. BK007878

2. Class 1 integron containing dihydrofolate reductase and aminoglycoside adenyltransferase

enzyme from Klebsiella pneumoniae strain DF12SA
Shahi S. K., Singh, V. K. and Kumar, A.
Acc. No. HQ114261

Training/ Workshop Organized:

(a) Protein Modeling & Simulation and Its applications in Biological Sciences” during September
15th -16th 2009. 36 participants from university itself.

Short term Training programs:

(a) In silico investigation of Drought resistance genes in Jowar (Sorghum bicolor) genome
By: Archana Verma, M.Sc. Bioinformatics, BHU, MMV (3 months).

(b) Wrky family of transcription factor in rice and sorghum : A genome wide analysis
By: Kamal Preet Sarna, B. Tech. Biotechnology, IATS, Allahabad (1 month).

Educational Activities:

Teaching Elective course: Course No. BTM402, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics.

The facility is also used by M.Sc. /Ph.D students of School of Biotechnology.

Vinay Kumar Singh

Information Officer
School of Biotechnology