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{{Short description|Indian bio-informatician}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava
| image = Raghava2.png
| image_size = 200px
| caption = G. P. S. Raghava
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|05|25|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bulandshahr]], Uttar Pradesh, India
| field = [[Bioinformatics]]
| work_institution = [[Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology]]
| prizes = [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] (2008), [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]] (2006)
| occupation = [[bioinformatics]]
| website = {{URL|http://webs.iiitd.edu.in/raghava/}}
}}

'''Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava''' is an Indian bio-informatician and Director of [[Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology]].

==Personal==

===Early years and education===
Raghava was born in village Nagla Karan, [[Bulandshahr district]] (UP), India in 1963. He completed his primary education from his native place [[Bulandshahr]] and post graduation from [[Meerut]], UP in 1984. After completing his MTech from [[Indian Institute of Technology]], New Delhi, he joined [[Institute of Microbial Technology]] as a computer scientist. There he continued to work on various projects and became the head of Bioinformatics Centre in 1994. In 1996 he received a doctorate in bioinformatics from [[Institute of Microbial Technology]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi |url=https://www.iiitd.ac.in/raghava |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi |language=en}}</ref> and [[Panjab University, Chandigarh]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Notable bioinformatician – Dr Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava | url=http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/features/174140/notable-bioinformatician-i-dr-gajendra-pal-singh-raghava-i | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428064034/http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/features/174140/notable-bioinformatician-i-dr-gajendra-pal-singh-raghava-i | archive-date=28 April 2015 }}</ref>

===Career and higher studies===
Raghava joined the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh in 1986 as a computer scientist and developer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home Page of Prof. Gajendra P. S. Raghava |url=https://webs.iiitd.edu.in/raghava/ |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=webs.iiitd.edu.in}}</ref> He is also coordinator of the distributed information centre supported by [[Department of Biotechnology|DBT]] under the BTISNET programme, where his primary duty is to build and maintain infrastructure required for protein modelling and engineering.

He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford university as well as at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) at Cambridge for two years (1996–98). During this period he learned and developed a number of web servers for application in [[computational biology]], particularly in protein modelling.

===Achievements and awards===
[[Image:Raghava kapil.png|thumb|G P S Raghava receiving National Bioscience Award from Science and Technology minister Shri Kapil Sibal]]
Raghava received the Young Leader Award in Science & Technology, Lakshmipat Singhania – [[Indian Institute of Management Lucknow]] National Leadership awards 2011<ref>{{cite web | title= Press release IIML national leadership awards | url= http://www.jklakshmi.com/pdf/press-release_IIML-national-leadership-awards-nov-30-2012.pdf | url-status= dead | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140107133750/http://www.jklakshmi.com/pdf/press-release_IIML-national-leadership-awards-nov-30-2012.pdf | archive-date= 7 January 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=IMTECH scientist bags Lakshmipat Singhania – IIM Lucknow National Leadership Award|url=http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/news/123001/imtech-scientist-awarded-lakshmipat-singhania-iim-lucknow-national-leadership-award|access-date=2 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214215525/http://www.biospectrumindia.com/biospecindia/news/123001/imtech-scientist-awarded-lakshmipat-singhania-iim-lucknow-national-leadership-award|archive-date=14 December 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was listed as one of eight highly cited Indians scientists by [[Thomson Reuters]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web | title=The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds | date=June 2014|url=http://sciencewatch.com/grr/presenting-highly-cited-researchers}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Change head!! 8 Indians pale in comparison with 163 Chinese in list of highly-cited researchers
|website=[[The Times of India]] |date=25 July 2014 |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Change-head8-Indians-pale-in-comparison-with-163-Chinese-in-list-of-highly-cited-researchers/articleshow/38983168.cms}}</ref> He was awarded NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Awards, 2009 in Biological Sciences<ref>{{cite web | title= NASI-Reliance Industries Platinum Jubilee Awards, 2009 | url=http://nasi.nic.in/NASI-Reliance%20Industries%20Platinum%20Jubilee%20Awardees%20(2009).htm}}</ref>
[[Thomson Reuters]] presented him Research Excellence ~ India Research Front Awards 2009.<ref>{{cite web | title=India Research Front Awards 2009|url=http://science.thomsonreuters.com/ssr/researchday_09_in/}}</ref>
He received the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]] for 2008<ref>{{cite news | title=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology|url=http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/28/stories/2008092859630900.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930074359/http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/28/stories/2008092859630900.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=30 September 2008 | newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|date=28 September 2008 }}</ref>

===Scientific recognitions ===
*He was elected as Fellow of National Academy of Sciences by for his excellent contribution in the field of Bioinformatics.<ref>{{cite web | title=The National Academy of Sciences, India |url=http://nasi.nic.in/}}</ref>
*He was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Banglore for his excellent contribution in the field of Bioinformatics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Banglore|url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Raghava,_Dr_Gajendra_Pal_Singh}}</ref>
*Raghava has H-index 95 and I10-index more than 286 in as per his Google scholar profile.<ref>{{cite web|title=Google Scholar Profile of Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava|url=https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=XK5GUiYAAAAJ&oi=ao}}</ref>
* He is member of editorial board of number of scientific journals.

==Research interests==
Raghava developed a method for calculating concentration of antibodies and antigens from ELISA data, and he a prediction method for protein secondary structure prediction. In 1999 he established his research group at IMTECH with emphasis on protein structure prediction and genome annotation. In 2001, his group also focused on "Computer aided vaccine design" with emphasis on subunit vaccine design. Since 2006, his group is trying to integrate bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, pharmaco-informatics and clinical informatics in order to develop a single platform for designing drugs in silico.

==Web services and software==
Raghava is an adherent of [[public domain software]] or open source software, and his group both uses and develops free software for academic use. Recently his group have initiated a web portal [[Computational Resource for Drug Discovery (CRDD)]] under [[Open Source Drug Discovery]].

==Works==
* OSDDlinux A customized linux operating system for drug discovery
* GlycoEP : In silico Platform for Prediction of N-, O- and C-Glycosites in Eukaryotic Protein Sequences. [http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067008 PLoS ONE 8(6): e67008]
* Lbtope: Improved Method for Linear B-Cell Epitope Prediction Using Antigen's Primary Sequence. [http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062216 PLoS ONE 8(5): e62216]
* Open Source Software and Web Services for Designing Therapeutic Molecule
* Freeware in Science A google plus community on Freeware in the field of Science.
* HIVcoPred: A server for prediction of HIV coreceptor usage (CCR5).
*TumorHPD: Computational approach for designing tumor homing peptides. [http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130405/srep01607/full/srep01607.html Scientific Reports 3: 1607]
* CellPPD: In silico approaches for designing highly effective cell penetrating peptides. [http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/11/1/74/abstract Journal of Translational Medicine 2013, 11:74] .
* MDRIpred : A web server for predicting inhibitors against drug tolerant M. Tuberculosis, published in [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714114112/http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/7/1/49/abstract Chemistry Central Journal]
* CancerDR: Cancer Drug Resistance Database. [http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130313/srep01445/full/srep01445.html Scientific Reports 3, 1445]
* CSIR-Informatics Portal: Web Servers and software developed by CSIR, INDIA
* ToxinPred: In Silico Approach for Predicting Toxicity of Peptides and Proteins. [http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0073957]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://webs.iiitd.edu.in/raghava/}}
* [https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=XK5GUiYAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Profile]
* [https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7003507401 Scopus]
* [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gajendra_Raghava/ ResearchGate Profile]

{{SSBPST recipients in Biological Science|state=collapsed}}
{{N-BIOS Laureates 1999–2009}}

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[[Category:1963 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian bioinformaticians]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian biologists]]
[[Category:Indian medical researchers]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences]]
[[Category:People from Bulandshahr district]]
[[Category:Scientists from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:N-BIOS Prize recipients]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science]]

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