Debasis Dash's Biography

Debasis Dash, Senior Principal Scientist, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology

Prof. Debasis Dash completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry from the University of Delhi and joined CSIR-IGIB as a Scientist. He has made significant contributions towards development of in silico tools for large scale comparative genomics studies and some of these tools developed by him are being extensively used by academic institutes. He was a core member of the team that studied Indian Genome Variation and has led a team of young researchers in the development of the IGVdb and IGV Browser. In collaboration with international team he developed data interoperability object model namely PaGE-OM that integrates phenotype-genotype data. His major contribution is in the development of protein identification and functional annotation tools such as PLHOST & CoPS database; GenoCluster for protein coding gene identification, MassWiz & Genosuite for proteomics research and machine learning tool Pro-Gyan for protein classification. Applying open source and his own developed proteomics tools he has identified several novel protein coding genes in prokaryotes and proteoforms in eukaryotes using proteo-genomics approach. He has more than 50 international publications, 2 patents and several copyrights to his credit. He has been awarded the CSIR Young Scientist Award (2004) and DBT Bioscience award for career development (2014).