Samir K Brahmachari

Secretary-DSIR and Director General-CSIR

Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India

Awards & Honours

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Memorial Award

The Indian Science Congress Association honored Prof. S.K.
Brahmachari with the S.S. Bhatnagar Memorial Award during the Inaugural
session of the 96th Indian Science Congress on 3 January 2009 at Shillong.

The Award was given to Prof. Brahmachari for his significant and lifetime
contribution to the development of Science and Technology in the country.

The Award seeks to honour his key contributions in the development of Science and
Technology – specifically in the area of Structural Biology, Disease Genomics
and Genome Analysis and also for the role he has played as an institution builder in this area; shaping the way this emerging field should develop in the future.

This prestigious award carries a Gold medal.

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Software Copyrights Filed

Software programme titled “PEPLIB- programme for finding common peptides in different genomes”.
Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K. Brahmachari. (CR-29/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
Software programme titled “PL-HostFA”. (CR-27/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
Authors: Debasis Dash, Mamta Khandelwal, S.K.Brahmachari.
Software programmed titled “PAT FIND”. (CR-28/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K.Brahmachari.
Software programmed title “PEPLIMP- programme to stitch common peptides found in different genomes”.
Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K.Brahmachari (CR-30/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
Software programme titled “PEPEXTRACT- programme to find proteins that contain specific pattern of amino-acids. Filed on 19/12/2001 (CR-31/2001).
Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K.Brahmachari.
Soft ware programme termed PEPSTICH filed on 31.1.2001. (CR 32 / 2001)
Authors: Debasis Dash and S.K. Brahamachari.
Software programme titled “Process.cgi- programme for finding common peptides in different genomes”.
Authors: Debasis Dash, S.K. Brahmachari. (CR-29/2001) filed on 19/12/2001.
“Interconnections of pathways cnontaining candidate genes for schizophrenia” CR 42/2002.
Authors: C.B. Rao and S.K. Brahmachari.
“EXPOLDB databse” CR 43/2002,
Authors: S. Ramachandran, Vineet Grover and SK Brahmachari
“Comprehensive peptide signatures database” (COPS DB).
Authors: Debasis Dash, Tulika Prakash and SK Brahmachari.
"Genedecipher" CR 28/2003 filed on 31-10-2003.
Authors: SK Brahmachari
STAMPSZ -Signal Transduction and metabolic pathway specific for schizophrenia.
Authors: Sambit Gaan, Simone Gupta, CB Rao and SK Brahmachari
"The immortal Coils" (50 years of Collagen Triple Helix: A Celebration of Science) CR 28/2004
Authors: SK Brahmachari
“High Throughput – sequence, screening and SNP (HT-SSS), Joint copyright application (CSIR and Silicogene Informatics) CR-31/2005.
Authors: Mitali Mukerji Debasis Dash, Dipayan Dasgupta, Siddharth Bisht, S. K. Brahmachari.

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