Research Interests and Accomplishments

Dr. Basu started his independent research work in bioinformatics while carrying out his Ph.D. work in Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), India. He is an expert in the area of web programming and one of the first to apply Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Bioinformatics. He wrote several software, some of which are: SeWeR, an integrated platform for sequence analysis over the Internet; Savvy, a plasmid-drawing software that generates plasmid maps in SVG; Pastel, a library to generate SVG; BioSVG, a library to generate SVG for biological data; and many more. He did his post-doctoral work in Eugene Koonin's lab at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), where his work mainly focused on intron evolution and evolution of protein domain-architecture.

At JCVI, Dr. Basu carries out his work in evolution of genome-architecture and on writing new computational tools leveraging the latest web technologies. He also contributes to several ongoing projects at JCVI, including TIGRFAM, protein family reconstruction, phylogenetic profile comparison, and creation of pangenome.

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