We are a group of passionate researchers at the Vishwanath Cancer Care Foundation and previously at the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) working towards using advanced Genomics and Data Analytics to understand biology and impact lives around us.
The recent declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation has prompted us to venure into research in this area as well as make the relevant Data, Research and Resources at the Vinod Scaria Lab at CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) in an open format to ensure that they are widely accessible as well as relevant. The programme would embrace the concepts of open-source and open access.
Learn more at Open COVID-19
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The Bi4S Course has participants from over 40 countries making it a truly global educational initiative on Genomics and Bioinformatics for School Students
It was as early as January 2020 when Vinod Scaria and his team at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) knew that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was weeks from hitting India. They had to understand the novel Coronavirus better and fast if diagnostics had to keep pace with the spread. But with the nationwide lockdown, their Delhi lab was shuttered. Of the team of 12, a handful were allowed to work from office. The rest had to manage from home with no infrastructure available to them.
GENEPI is a collaborative programme to use high-throughput genomics approaches to understand the genetic makeup and genetic epidemiology of novel and emerging pathogens in India.
KAISER is a citizen science initiative relying on open science to be able to prepare, understand and respond to epidemics.
This initiative also endeavours to build the much required skill base, resources, data and technologies to be able to help and cater to similar requirements nationally and globally.
Complete list of Publications are available here
Complete list of COVID-19 Publications are available at Publications page
OPEN MINDS 2020: MIND OVER MATTER
COVID-19 Response: Young Scientists Are Among India’s Unsung Heroes
Genome sequencing by CSIR to help in Precision Medicine in India
Genome sequencing to map population diversity
5-year-old ‘butterfly’ boy at PGI for treatment
Interpretation of a malady: how scientists zeroed in on one family's rare and crippling disease
Vinod Scaria and Sridhar Sivasubbu