Raghava is a highly original and dedicated bioinformatician, who has developed methods which provide extremely useful research-based service to scientific community in the field of life sciences. He has published around 300 papers in highly reputed journals and these are highly cited by scientific community (total citations ~ 2200). He got ?Thomson Reuters Research Excellence - India Research Front Awards 2009? because two of his papers ranked in the category of highly cited papers in the world. These are regularly used by the biologists for designing epitope based vaccines. Broadly, he made major contribution in following three areas- vaccine-informatics, drug-informatics and genome/proteome annotations. In the field of vaccine informatics, he has developed a large number methods/databases to aid in the understanding of the whole immune system and to help immunologist in designing subunit vaccines.
Specialties: Bioinformatics Research