# Bioclues > BIOinformatics CLUb for Experimenting Scientists ## Pages - [LTAs](https://bioclues.org/ltas/): Life Time Achievement Awardees are our roll of honor - [INBIX](https://bioclues.org/inbix/): Indian Conference on Bioinformatics is a flagship program of Bioclues where annual conference is held in various cities of India every year. The #InBix2025 is going to be held at ICMR-NIRTH, Jabalpur. The ICMR-National Institute of Research in Tribal Health (NIRTH), formerly known as the Regional Medical Research Centre for Tribals (RMRCT) saw the light of the day in three rooms at the adjoining Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur in 1984. The RMRCT was shifted to the main building spanning a 36 acre lush-green campus in April 2002 and re-designated to its present name (NIRTH) in 2014. ICMR-NIRTH… - [Newsletters](https://bioclues.org/newsletters/): The latets newsletter is Volume 16, Issue 3. Coming up! For previous Newsletters, please click here - [Women in Biology](https://bioclues.org/women-in-biology/): Bioclues actively promotes women in science through its Women in Biology (WiB) forum, which hosts conferences, awards, and mentoring programs. Key Events and Initiatives - [Events](https://bioclues.org/events/): Recent past events In sicversation ( Perpetual) Bioinformatics for School Children (BIXS) new cohort: starting soon Other events and programs - [In Sciversation](https://bioclues.org/in-sciversation/): In Sciversation with Prash is a monthly conversation with scientists who have taken science and conscience for greater good. Upcoming guests: Priyanka Narad, PhD and Abhishek Sengupta, PhD on December 17, 2025 at 7 PM IST One click registration For previous recordings and guests, please visit here - [About](https://bioclues.org/about/) - [GCCI](https://bioclues.org/gcci/): Geneticists-Clinicians Consortium of India (GCCI) is a spin off consortia between Bioclues.org and Aabir Bioservices founded in 2000. Founders: Kausar Neyaz and Prashanth N Suravajhala President: Komal Uppal Secretary: Saima N Khan Vice President: Sunil K Polipalli Genetic counselors: ,Ashna Narayanan, Soham Banerjee, Clinicians: Narest Tayade, Ram Mohan Jaiswal, Other members: Rakesh Panjaliya, Vandana Suseelan, Recent event: Past members: Dhanlakshmi Shetty, Obul R Bandapalli, Sugunakar Vure and Shalini Rajagopal - [CAPCI](https://bioclues.org/capci/): The CAncer Prostate Consortium of India (CAPCI) was virtually started in 2017 and established in September 2020 by a group of researchers and clinicians interested in identifying inherited and somatic risk factors that are related to theonset of prostate cancer (PCa). The consortium aims to improve the patient care and treatment in India byexploring and expanding the utility of genomic repositories associated with PCa. These aims are reached by advancing discovery in genome science particular to Indian phenotypes, translating scientific discoveries to improved standard of care. One of the impending goals of the consortium is to combine the data from… - [Consortia](https://bioclues.org/consortia/) - [Webservers](https://bioclues.org/webservers/) - [Fungome](https://bioclues.org/fungome/): Sequencing genomes of different pathogenic fungi produced plethora of genetic information. This “omics” data might be of great interest to probe strain diversity, identify virulence factors and complementary genes in other fungal species, and importantly in predicting the role of proteins specific to pathogenesis in humans. We propose a component called “fungome” for those fungal proteins implicated in pathogenesis which, we believe, will allow researchers to improve the annotation of fungal proteins. PIs: Prashanth N Suravajhala and Sivaramaiah Nallapeta Contributors: Ranganath Gudimella, Pritish Varadwaj Citation: Gudimella R, Nallapeta S, Varadwaj P, Suravajhala P. Fungome: Annotating proteins implicated in fungal pathogenesis.… - [Horigene](https://bioclues.org/horigene/): Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) takes place when two organisms share their genetic material. Contrary to the ancestral transfer of genes, viz. Vertical gene transfer, the HGT, is very commonly found in many species of bacteria even if there is distantly related evidence which is phylogenies, sequence comparison, and genome characteristics. In this work, we use an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) model which is based on unsupervised learning on the human fungal pathogenesis dataset. The AI/ML model discovers distinctive classification/annotation features which are able to predict a correlation between pathogenesis and horizontal transfer events with unknown queries. Horigene will be soon… - [BIRD Awards](https://bioclues.org/bird-awards/): Call for Nominations : Bioclues Innovation, Research and Development (BIRD) awards for the year 2026 will be open during July 2026. The deadline will be announced later! Awardees 2025: Piyush Agrawal and Prajjval Pratap Singh Previous years: Please click here To encourage bioinformaticists in India who have made outstanding contributions in the area of Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, we have initiated the Bioclues Innovation, Research and Development (BIRD) awards in 2011. This award is meant not just for academicians but also for scientists who have shown exemplary excellence in the field of Bioinformatics. While scientists who have been working for… - [Partners](https://bioclues.org/partners/) - [PSPDB](https://bioclues.org/pspdb/): Plant Stress Protein Database Plants produce various proteins to overcome biotic and abiotic stresses. Current plant stress databases report plant genes without protein annotations specific to these stresses. To date, according to our findings, a unique plant stress protein database for both biotic and abiotic stresses is not available explicitly for plant biologists that describe linking out to other related databases. This need initiated us to formulate a distinctive database that includes important resources for stress-based factors. We developed the Plant Stress Protein Database (PSPDB), a web-accessible resource that covers 2,064 manually curated plant stress proteins from a wide array… - [Research](https://bioclues.org/research/): Bioclues.org through virtual projects has several publications. Various web servers hosted can be checked through respective pages. Bioclues@PubMed and Bioclues@GS - [Outreach](https://bioclues.org/outreach/) - [Mentoring](https://bioclues.org/mentoring/) - [Join us](https://bioclues.org/join-us/): Membership benefits We don’t want to have a normal prototype set for membership benefits and so you would find a unique list here: Membership categories How is the membership fee utilized? Do you know? We have eminent members from India and  abroad. For  List of  all Life Members,  please click here  How to pay? Pay your membership dues in three simple steps Please expect a receipt by snail mail, so ensure you give a full address with PIN code and phone number. - [Merchandise](https://bioclues.org/merchandise/): Bioclues Coffee Mugs/Teeshirts including shipping per item costs 500 INR. You may order here - [BET](https://bioclues.org/bet/): The following are the Bioclues Executive Team (BET) members for 2026-’27. President: Gyaneshwer Chaubey Secretary: Madhulika Bhagat Adviser-in-Chief: VS Sundararajan Joint Secretaries: Vandana and Soham Biswas Outreach chairs: Anil Kumar and Prajjval Pratap Singh Research chair: Piyush Agrawal Entrepreneurship chair: Akshaykumar Zawar Mentoring/BIXS chair: Prash - [Who we are](https://bioclues.org/who-we-are/): BIOCLUES is acronymed for BIOinformatics CLUb for Experimenting Scientists. Bioclues is a professional society for, by, and of the Indian Biologists whos peak bioinformatics.. Incepted in the year 2005, it is the largest fbioinformatics society in India, currently serving over 13600 members from nearly 43 countries. We aim to bring together the Indian bioinformatics together, foster a strong working mentor–mentee relationship, provide access to bioinformatics resources, organize conferences and workshops besides imparting information about research, training, education, employment and current events and news from bioinformatics, genomics, and related fields. Bioclues adheres Creative Commons License with the prime focus to help… - [Hippocratic Oath](https://bioclues.org/hippocratic-oath/): The Bioclues.org and research community are committed to the following:     Highest ethical standards inscribed in our vision, mission of M-O-R-E.    Recognize that we hold standards and are committed to Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE) and conscientiously strive for betterment, excellence of our virtual projects.    Accountable as an organization to comply with the ethical laws reinstated in the form of Open Access and Open Source policies.    Respect the rights and dignity of others. I will follow the aforementioned standards Please sign here - [NtUE](https://bioclues.org/ntue/): A web resource for nutrient use efficiency Cereals are key contributors to global food security. Genes involved in the uptake (transport), assimilation and utilization of macro- and micronutrients are responsible for the presence of these nutrients in grain and straw. Although many genomic databases for cereals are available, there is currently no cohesive web resource of manually curated nutrient use efficiency (NtUE)-related genes and quantitative trait loci (QTLs). In this study, we present a web-resource containing information on NtUE-related genes/QTLs and the corresponding available microRNAs for some of these genes in four major cereal crops (wheat ( Triticum aestivum), rice ( Oryza… - [HPDB](https://bioclues.org/hpdb/): HPDB: a comprehensive Human Pigmentation Database PI: Chandana Basu, PhD., BHU, Varanasi chandana.basu@bhu.ac.in   Database Developer: VS Sundararajan, PhD, Adviser-in-Chief, Bioclues.org Other contributors: Shwetotpal Mrinal and  Prashanth Suravajhala With the reduction in sequencing costs and advent of next generation sequencing, there is an increase in the growing lists of identified variants in pigmentation biology, thus creating an urgent need to catalog these variants. The only existing database includes 688 genes, coalescing zebrafish, mouse and humans including only 128 genes reported in humans. Hence, there was an urgent need for an integrated updated database which could list all the pigmentation genes in… - [Hypo](https://bioclues.org/hypo/): HYPO2: A Database of Human Hypothetical Proteins Background: There are genes whose function remains obscure as they may not have similarities to known regions in the genome. Such known ‘unknown’ genes constituting the Open Reading Frames (ORF) that remain in the epigenome are termed as orphan genes and the proteins encoded by them but having no experimental evidence of translation are termed as ‘Hypothetical Proteins’ (HPs). Objectives: We have enhanced our former database of Hypothetical Proteins (HP) in human (HypoDB) with added annotation, application programming interfaces and descriptive features. The database hosts 1000+ manually curated records of the known ‘unknown’ regions in… - [SANBIX](https://bioclues.org/sanbix/): South Asian Network on Bioinformatics is an annual spin off virtual series of symposia catering to the biologists and bioinformaticists to the global south community #SANBIX2025 is in collaboration with FAMU,USA. Registration closes! - [Journal Clubs](https://bioclues.org/journal-clubs/): Have you ever seen researchers chatting online? Yes, we at Bioclues.org have been exchanging e-mails, and messaging everywhere from erstwhile PhpBB2 forums to the WhatsApp chats. It is time we all came together to discuss interesting topics. Bioinformatics club for experimenting scientists (a.k.a. Bioclues) has set up a virtual journal club and you’re welcome to join! We already have state reps from India to help you get started.. We are affiliated with ReproducibiliTea If you are interested in giving a journal club talk, why not send us an e mail? - [Bioclues Interest Groups](https://bioclues.org/bioclues-interest-groups/): Whatsapp community - [Virtual Projects](https://bioclues.org/virtual-projects/) - [BIXS](https://bioclues.org/bixs/): BIXS, which stands for “Bioinformatics for School children,” is a program to introduce students aged 12-18 to the field. The program provides an introduction to bioinformatics through a combination of online sessions, interactive hands-on activities, and projects covering topics like genetics, data science, and systems biology. It aims to develop critical thinking and interest in science among young students. Our new cohort starts soon. Register here . About the BIXS program - [Home](https://bioclues.org/) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)