University of California, San Diego

Forward Thinking at the Gateway to the Pacific: Founded in 1960, the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego, or UCSD) is one of the nation's most accomplished research universities, widely acknowledged for its local impact, national influence and global reach. Ideally located near the Pacific Ocean, the U.S.-Mexico border and at the edge of the Pacific Rim, UC San Diego is renowned for its collaborative, diverse and cross-disciplinary ethos that transcends traditional boundaries in science, arts and the humanities. The university's award-winning scholars are experts at the forefront of their fields with an impressive track record for achieving scientific, medical and technological breakthroughs. A leader in climate science research, UC San Diego is one of the greenest universities in the nation and promotes sustainability solutions throughout the region and the world.

To find out more about UCSD please visit http://www.ucsd.edu.

San Diego Supercomputer Center

Founded in 1985, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) enables international science and engineering discoveries through advances in computational science and high performance computing. Continuing this legacy into the era of cyberinfrastructure, SDSC is a strategic resource to science, industry and academia, offering leadership in the areas of data management, grid computing, bioinformatics, geoinformatics, high-end computing as well as other science and engineering disciplines. The mission of SDSC is to extend the reach of scientific accomplishments by providing tools such as high-performance hardware technologies, integrative software technologies and deep inter-disciplinary expertise, to the community.

SDSC was founded with a $170 million grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Supercomputer Centers program. From 1997 to 2004, SDSC extended its leadership in computational science and engineering to form the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), teaming with approximately 40 university partners around the country. Today, SDSC is an organized research unit of the University of California, San Diego primarily funded by NSF with a staff of talented scientists, software developers and support personnel.

To find out more about SDSC please visit http://www.sdsc.edu.

UCSD Staff

Shankar Subramaniam Principle Investigator
Shankar Subramaniam is a Professor of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Biology. He is currently Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, and Director of the UCSD Bioinformatics Graduate Program. He also has adjunct Professorships at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Brian Saunders Project Coordinator and Bioinformatics Analyst
Brian Saunders has been in the bioinformatics field since 1997, with the San Diego Supercomputer Center since 1999, and with Signaling Gateway project since its inception in 2001 as part of the Alliance for Cellular Signaling. Brian specializes in biological sequence analysis, bioinformatic database design, and the inclusion of public bioinformatic resources. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ashok Reddy Dinasarapu Application Programmer
Ashok Reddy Dinasarapu has been in the bioinformatics field since 2003 and a postdoctoral fellow with the UCSD Bioengineering Department since 2008. He has both M.S and Ph.D. in Biochemistry (Bioinformatics specialization in Ph.D) from University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, and a M.S. in Biotechnology from Anna University, Chennai, India.

Prasad Burra Application Programmer
Prasad Burra has been developing web-enabled biological applications, WIKIs, content management systems for past 3 years, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the UCSD Bioengineering Deparement. He is also working on microarray analysis from systems perspective, signaling pathway modeling and prediction studies in the present lab. In the past Dr. Prasad was a bioinformatics entrepreneur and a visiting faculty at many universities teaching computational biology and bioinformatics. He has designed and developed two technologies with patents pending. He holds a doctorate in Protein Crystallography from the Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. Dr. Prasad is an engineer by training and in addition has a Masters in Biotechnology from University of Hyderabad.

The UCSD-Nature Signaling Gateway is funded partially by NIH/NIGMS Grant 1 R01 GM078005-01 to UC San Diego (PI: Shankar Subramaniam)