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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Debasisa Mohanty<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1966|11|30}}<br />
| birth_place = India<br />
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| residence = [[New Delhi]], India<br />
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]<br />
| fields = {{ublist | [[Computational biology]] | [[Bioinformatics]] }}<br />
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[National Institute of Immunology, India]] }}<br />
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[IIT Kanpur]] | [[Indian Institute of Science]] | [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] | [[Scripps Research Institute]] }}<br />
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| known_for = Studies on computer simulation of [[Biomolecule|biomolecular systems]]<br />
| awards = {{ublist| 2005&nbsp;OBA Samanta Chandrashekhar Award | 2007&nbsp;Rajib Goyal Prize | 2009&nbsp;[[National Bioscience Award for Career Development|N-BIOS Prize]] }}<br />
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'''Debasisa Mohanty''' (born 30 November 1966) is an Indian computational biologist, bioinformatician and a staff scientists at the [[National Institute of Immunology, India]]. Known for his studies on structure and function prediction of proteins, [[genome analysis]] and computer simulation of [[Biomolecule|biomolecular systems]], Mohanty is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies namely the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], the [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]]. The [[Department of Biotechnology]] of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2009.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
[[File:A building at IIT Kanpur.jpg|thumb|left|IIT Kanpur]]<br />
Born on 30 November 1966,<ref name="Fellow profile">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Mohanty,_Dr_Debasisa |title=Fellow profile |date=2018-01-21 |publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> Debasisa Mohanty earned a post graduate degree (MSc) in physics from the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] in 1988 and did his doctoral studies at the Molecular Biophysics Unit of the [[Indian Institute of Science]] to secure a PhD in computational biophysics in 1994.<ref name="About the speaker">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mecheng.iisc.ernet.in/~spapro/Dmohanty.htm |title=About the speaker |date=2018-01-21 |website=www.mecheng.iisc.ernet.in |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> Subsequently, he completed his post-doctoral work, first the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] and, later, at the [[Scripps Research Institute]].<ref name="Debasisa Mohanty on NII">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nii.res.in/research/debasisa-mohanty |title=Debasisa Mohanty on NII |date=2018-01-21 |website=www.nii.res.in |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> On his return to India, he joined the [[National Institute of Immunology, India]] (NII) where he serves as a Grade VII staff scientist and hosts a number of research scholars at his laboratory. At NII, he also supervises the activities of ''RiPPMiner'', (Bioinformatics Resource for Deciphering Chemical Structures of RiPPs)<ref name="RiPPMiner">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nii.ac.in/~priyesh/lantipepDB/new_predictions/contactus.php |title=RiPPMiner |date=2018-01-21 |website=www.nii.ac.in |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> and the Bioinformatics Centre.<ref name="Bioinformatics Centre">{{Cite web |url=http://www.cosidici.com/INSTITUTES/NATIONAL%20INSTITUTE%20OF%20IMMUNOLOTY.htm |title=Bioinformatics Centre |date=2018-01-21 |website=Council Of State Industrial Development and Investment Corporations Of India (COSIDICI) |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref><br />
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Mohanty resides at the NII Campus, along Aruna Asaf Ali Marg in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="NASI fellows">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=M |title=NASI fellows |date=2018-01-21 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref><br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
[[File:Genome viewer screenshot small.png|thumb|A partially sequenced [[genome]].]]<br />
Mohanty's research focus is in the fields of [[computational biology]] and [[bioinformatics]]<ref name="Indian fellow">{{Cite web |url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail/P13-1617 |title=Indian fellow |date=2018-01-21 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> and he is known to have developed computational methods for predicting the substrate specificity of proteins as well as identified [[biosynthetic]] pathways.<ref name="About the speaker" /> His work has assisted in widening the understanding of the function of putative proteins in [[genomes]] and the ''[[protein interaction]] networks in newly sequenced genomes''.<ref name="Debasisa Mohanty on NII" /> His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles<ref name="On Google Scholar">{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ivcDx2gAAAAJ |title=On Google Scholar |date=2018-01-20 |publisher=Google Scholar |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|Please see ''Selected bibliography'' section}} and [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific articles has listed 108 of them.<ref name="On ResearchGate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Debasisa_Mohanty |title=On ResearchGate |date=2018-01-20 |access-date=2018-01-20}}</ref><br />
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Mohanty was a member of the national organizing committee of the ''International Conference in Bioinformatics (INCOB)'' held in 2006 in India<br />
<ref name="INCOB 2006">{{Cite web |url=https://incob.apbionet.org/incob06/committee.html |title=INCOB 2006 |date=2018-01-21 |website=incob.apbionet.org |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> and has delivered invited speeches at various conferences which included the seminar series on ''Proteomics and bioinformatics'' of the [[Regional Centre for Biotechnology]] held in 2013,<ref name="Proteomics and bioinformatics">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rcb.res.in/upload/2013/Workshop2013_5.pdf |title=Proteomics and bioinformatics |date=2013 |website=Regional Centre for Biotechnology |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> the ''Symposium on Accelerating Biology 2017: Delivering Precision'' of the [[Centre for Development of Advanced Computing]] (C-DAC) held in January 2017 in Pune,<ref name="Accelerating Biology 2017: Delivering Precision">{{Cite web |url=https://cdac.in/index.aspx?id=pdf_SYMP2017_technical_programme_final |title=Accelerating Biology 2017: Delivering Precision |date=2018-01-21 |website=Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> and the ''Symposium on Functional Genomics'' organized by the [[Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology]] in Delhi in December 2017.<ref name="CCB@IIIT-Delhi">{{Cite web |url=http://ccb.iiitd.ac.in/CCB-group-meeting.html |title=CCB@IIIT-Delhi |date=2018-01-21 |website=ccb.iiitd.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref><br />
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== Awards and honors ==<br />
Mohanty received the Samanta Chandrashekhar Award of the Orissa Bigyan Academy in 2005<ref name="Details of the Previous Winners">{{Cite web |url=http://www.orissabigyanacademy.nic.in/award_scs_prv_winner.html |title=Details of the Previous Winners |date=2018-01-21 |website=www.orissabigyanacademy.nic.in |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> and the Rajib Goyal Young Scientist Prize in Life Sciences of [[Kurukshetra University]] in 2007.<ref name="Rajib Goyal Young Scientist Prize">{{Cite web |url=http://kuk.ac.in/userfiles/file/news/goyal%20prize%202008.pdf |title=Rajib Goyal Young Scientist Prize |date=2018-01-21 |website=Kurukshetra University |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> The [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] elected him as a fellow the next year<ref name="NASI Year Book 2015">{{Cite web |url=http://www.nasi.org.in/Year%20Book%202015.pdf |title=NASI Year Book 2015 |date=2018-01-21 |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |access-date=2018-01-21}}</ref> and the [[Department of Biotechnology]] (DBT) of the Government of India awarded him the [[National Bioscience Award for Career Development]], one of the highest Indian science awards in 2009.<ref name="Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development">{{Cite web |url=http://dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/list_of_bioscience_awardees.pdf |title=Awardees of National Bioscience Awards for Career Development |date=2016 |publisher=Department of Biotechnology |access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref> He became an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] in 2012<ref name="Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/listing/fellows/M |title=Fellowship - Indian Academy of Sciences |date=2018-01-16 |website=www.ias.ac.in |language=en |access-date=2018-01-16}}</ref> and of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 2013.<ref name="INSA Year Book 2016">{{Cite web |url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |title=INSA Year Book 2016 |date=2018-01-21 |publisher=Indian National Science Academy |access-date=2018-01-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104001952/http://www.insaindia.res.in/pdf/YearBook_2016.pdf |archive-date=4 November 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref><br />
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== Selected bibliography ==<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Agrawal |first1=Priyesh |last2=Khater |first2=Shradha |last3=Gupta |first3=Money |last4=Sain |first4=Neetu |last5=Mohanty |first5=Debasisa |date=2017-07-03 |title=RiPPMiner: a bioinformatics resource for deciphering chemical structures of RiPPs based on prediction of cleavage and cross-links |journal=Nucleic Acids Research |volume=45 |issue=W1 |pages=W80–W88 |doi=10.1093/nar/gkx408 |pmid=28499008 |pmc=5570163 |issn=0305-1048}}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Sharma |first1=Chhaya |last2=Mohanty |first2=Debasisa |title=Sequence- and structure-based analysis of proteins involved in miRNA biogenesis |journal=Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=139–151 |doi=10.1080/07391102.2016.1269687|pmid=27928938 |year=2018 |s2cid=11253090 }}<br />
* {{Cite journal |last1=Khater |first1=Shradha |last2=Anand |first2=Swadha |last3=Mohanty |first3=Debasisa |title=In silico methods for linking genes and secondary metabolites: The way forward |journal=Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=80–88 |doi=10.1016/j.synbio.2016.03.001|pmid=29062931 |pmc=5640692 |year=2016 }}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Protein–protein interaction]]<br />
* [[In silico]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{Cite web |title=In silico identification of novel biosynthetic pathways by knowledge-based prediction of protein structure/function |last=D. Mohanty |date=2018-01-21 |website=Indian Institute of Science |format=Presentation }}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Cite journal |title=Mohanty on PubMed - NCBI |journal = Fel'dsher I Akusherka|volume = 40|issue = 9|pages = 31–4|date=2018-01-21 |pmid = 255|last1 = Shibaeva|first1 = A. N.}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur alumni]]<br />
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[[Category:Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni]]<br />
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