Nita Parekh

List of publications

    • Explainable and Lightweight Model for COVID-19 Detection Using Chest Radiology Images, Suba S and Nita Parekh (under review)
    • Indian-COVID-19 CT Dataset and Analysis of Chest CT scans of COVID-19 Patients Using Lightweight CNN, Suba S, Nita Parekh, Ramesh Loganathan, Vikram Pudi, Chinnababu Sunkavalli (submitted).
    • Identification and Functional Characterization of Genetic Variations across DLBCL cell lines, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh (under review)
    • Demographic Analysis of Mutations in Indian SARS-CoV-2 Isolates, Kushagra Agarwal and Nita Parekh (submitted). https://europepmc.org/article/PPR/PPR398398.bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac060
    • NetREx – Network-based Rice Expression Analysis Server for Abiotic Stress Conditions, Sanchari Sircar, Mayank Musaddi and Nita Parekh, Database, 2022 baac060 (2022).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac060. link
    • Sequence and Structure-Based Analyses of Human Ankyrin Repeats, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, Molecules, 27, 423 (2022).PMID: 35056738. link
    • HyINDEL – A Hybrid approach for Detection of Insertions and Deletions, T. Alok and Nita Parekh, bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.08.463662.
    • DbStRiPs: Database of Structural Repeats in Proteins, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, Protein Science, 31(1), Tools 2022, 23-36 (2022)PMID: 33641184. link
    • Identification of co-expression gene networks controlling rice blast disease during an incompatible reaction, Rosangela Bevitori, Sanchari Sircar, Raquel Neves de Melo, Roberto Coiti Togawa, Tiago Silva Oliveira, Maria de Fátima Grossi-de-Sá, Nita Parekh, Genet. Mol. Res., 19 (3): GMR18579, (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4238/gmr18579. link
    • PRIGSA2: Improved version of Protein Repeat Identification by Graph Spectral Analysis, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, Journal of BioSciences, 45 (2020).PMID: 32713858. link
    • Genome-wide characterization of copy number variations in DLBCL with implications in targeted therapy, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh, Precision Clinical Medicine, 2 (4), 246-258 (2019).PMID: 35693879. link
    • Identifying Biomarkers for Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Subtypes, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh, Novel Approaches in Cancer Study, 3 (2): 260 (2019).DOI: 10.31031/NACS.2019.03.000558. link
    • NAPS Update: Network Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data and Protein-Nucleic Acid Complexes, Broto Chakrabarty, Varun Naganathan, Kanak Garg, Yash Agarwal and Nita Parekh, Nucleic Acids Research, 47 (W1), W462-W470 (2019). PMID: 31106363. link
    • Meta-analysis of Drought-tolerant Genotypes in Oryza sativa: A Network-based Approach, Sanchari Sircar and Nita Parekh, in PLoS ONE, 14(5), e0216068 (2019). PMID: 31059518. link
    • SeqVItA: Sequence Variant Identification and Annotation Platform for Next Generation Sequencing Data, Prashanthi Dharanipragada, Sampreeth Reddy Seelam and Nita Parekh, Frontiers in Genetics, 9, 537, (2018). DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00537. link
    • iCopyDAV: Integrated platform for copy number variations—Detection, annotation and visualization, Prashanthi Dharanipragada, Sriharsha Vogeti and Nita Parekh, PLoS ONE, 13, 4, (2018). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195334. link
    • Protocol for Co-expression Network Construction and Stress-responsive Expression Analysis in Brachypodium, Sanchari Sircar, Nita Parekh and Gaurav Sablok, “Brachypodium Genomics: Methods and Protocols”, Methods in Molecular Biology, 1667, pp203-221 (2018). PMID: 29039014 link
    • Copy Number Variation Detection Workflow using Next Generation Sequencing Data, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh, in IEEE proceedings of International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BSB-2016), 4-6 March 2016, IIIT Allahabad. link
    • NAPS: Network Analysis of Protein Structures, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, Nucleic Acids Res.,44(W1), W375-82, (2016). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw383. link
    • Functional characterization of Drought-responsive Modules and Genes in Oryza sativa: A Network-based Approach, Sanchari Sircar and Nita Parekh, Frontiers in Genetics, 6, 256, (2015). DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00256. link
    • Robustness of Chimera States in Non-locally Coupled Logistic Maps Network-based Approach, Pranneetha B and Nita Parekh, The Chaotic Modeling and Simulation Journal, 2, 135-147, (2015). ISSN: 241-0503. link
    • Identifying Tandem Ankyrin Repeats in Protein Structures, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, BMC Bioinformatics,15(1), 6599, (2014). PMID:25547411, DOI:10.1186/s12859-014-0440-9. link
    • PRIGSA: Protein Repeat Identification by Graph Spectral Analysis, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, J. Bioinfo. Comp. Biol.,12(6), 1442009, (2014). PMID:25385083, DOI:10.1142/S0219720014420098. link
    • Robustness of Chimera States in Non-locally Coupled Logistic Maps, Pranneetha B and Nita Parekh, in proceedings of The 7th CHAOS Conference (CHAOS2014), pg. 377-389, ed. C.H. Skiadas, 7-10 June 2014, Lisbon Portugal.
    • Graph Centrality Analysis of Structural Ankyrin Repeats, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, 6(6), 305-314, (2014). ISSN:2150-7988. link
    • Analysis of Graph Centrality Measures for Identifying Ankyrin Repeats, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, in IEEE proceedings of World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 156-161, 2012. ISBN:978-1-4673-4806-5, DOI:10.1109/WICT.2012.6409067. link
    • IGIPT - Integrated Genomic Island Prediction Tool, Ruchi Jain, Sandeep Ramineni, Nita Parekh, Bioinformation,7(6), 307-310, (2011). link
    • Dynamical Networks: Analysis of their Underlying Topology, Raina Arora and Nita Parekh, published as a monograph by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, March 2012. ISBN: 978-3-8484-0103-1. link
    • Topological Analysis of Air Transportation Networks: A Graph-Theoretical Approach, Manasi Sapre and Nita Parekh, published as a monograph by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, (2012), ISBN: 978-3659275784. link
    • Analysis of Centrality Measures of Airport Network of India, Manasi Sapre and Nita Parekh, in S.O. Kuznetsov, D.P. Mandal, M.K. Kundu, S.K. Pal (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6744, pg. 376-381, (2011). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21786-9_61 link
    • Construction and Analysis of Enzyme Centric Network of A. thaliana using Graph Theory, Kasthuribai Viswanathan and Nita Parekh, in A. N. Averkin, D. I. Ignatov, S. Mitra, J. Poelmans,V. B. Tarasov (Eds.), proceedings of International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications and Knowledge Discovery (SCAKD’11), 125-134, (2011). ISSN:1613-0073.link
    • Construction and Analysis of Metabolic Network of Arabidopsis thaliana Pathways, Kasthuribai Viswanathan and Nita Parekh, in proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'11), Ed. Hamid R. Arabnia, Quoc-Nam Tran, 367-372, (2011). ISBN:1-60132-172-4. link
    • Computational Approaches to Protein Domain Identification, Nita Parekh, chapter in the book titled “Applied Computational Biology and Statistics in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics”, ed. A.K. Roy, Vol. 1, Chap 27, 677-696, New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi (2012). ISBN:9789380235929. link
    • Identification of Genomic Islands by Pattern Discovery, Nita Parekh, chapter in the book titled “Pattern Discovery Using Sequence Data Mining: Applications and Studies”, Ed. Pradeep Kumar, P. Radha Krishnan, and S. Bapi Raju (2011). link
    • Analysis of Periodic Repeats in Protein Sequences: Distribution, Function and Disease Association, Rima Kumari and Nita Parekh, published as a monograph by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, Oct 2010. ISBN: 978-3-8433-6005-0 link
    • Controlling Dynamical Networks, Raina Arora and Nita Parekh, in online published proceedings of The 3rd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2010), (2010). Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/81. link
    • Identifying Structural Repeats in Proteins using Graph Centrality Measures, Ruchi Jain, Hari Krishna Yalamanchili and Nita Parekh, in the IEEE proceedings of World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), pg. 110 – 115, (2009). Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/174 link
    • Graph Spectral Approach for Identifying Protein Domains, Hari Krishna Yalamanchili and Nita Parekh, in “Bioinformatics and Computational Biology”, S. Rajasekaran (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. LNBI 5462, 437-448, Springer Verlag Berling Heidelberg (2009). ISBN:978-3-642-00726-2. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-00727-9_40. link
    • Integrated Genomic Island Prediction Tool (IGIPT), Ruchi Jain, Sandeep Ramineni and Nita Parekh, in IEEE proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT2008), icit, pp.131 - 132, (2008). Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/175. link
    • DRIPS – Database of Repeats in Protein Sequences, Rima Kumari and Nita Parekh, poster paper in 19th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW2008), Gold Coast, Australia, 1 - 3 Dec. (2008). Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/155. link
    • Controllability of Spatially Extended Systems Using the Pinning Approach, Nita Parekh and Somdatta Sinha, Physica A 318, 200-212 (2003).
    • Controlling Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Excitable Systems, Nita Parekh and Somdatta Sinha, Santa Fe Institute Working Paper No. 00-06-031 (2000). link
    • Controlling Dynamics in Spatially Extended Systems, Nita Parekh and Somdatta Sinha, Phys. Rev. E. 65, 036227-1 to 9 (2002).
    • Suppression of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Map Lattices, Nita Parekh and Sondatta Sinha, in Nonlinear Dynamics and Brain Functioning, eds. N. Pradhan, P.E. Rapp and R. Sreenivasan, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (New York, USA), ISBN 1560726482 (1999).
    • Global and Local Control of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Map Lattices, Nita Parekh, S. Parthasarthy and S. Sinha, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1401 (1998).
    • Synchronization and Control of Spatiotemporal Chaos Using Time-Series Data from Local Regions, Nita Parekh, V. Ravi Kumar and B.D. Kulkarni, Chaos 8, 300 (1998).
    • Control of Spatiotemporal Chaos: A Study with an Autocatalytic Reaction-Diffusion System, Nita Parekh, V. Ravi Kumar and B.D. Kulkarni, Pramana - J. Phys. 48, 303 (1997). link
    • Analysis and Characterization of Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion systems, Nita Parekh, V. Ravi Kumar, and B.D. Kulkarni, Physica A 224, 369 (1996).
    • Control of Self-Replicating Patterns in a Model Reaction-Diffusion System, Nita Parekh, V. Ravi Kumar and B.D. Kulkarni, Phys. Rev. E 52, 5100 (1995).
    • Phase Ordering Dynamics in a Gravitational Field, S. Puri, Nita Parekh and S. Dattagupta, J. Stat. Phys. 75, 839 (1994).
    • Phase Ordering Dynamics in Disordered Systems, Nita Parekh, S. Puri and D. Chowdhury in Computational Aspects in Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, eds. G. Ambika and V.M. Nandakumaran [Wiley Eastern Limited, New Delhi, 1994], pp. 263-273.
    • Velocity Selection in Coupled Map Lattices, Nita Parekh and S. Puri, Phys. Rev. E 47, 1415 (1993).
    • Non-algebraic Domain Growth for Phase Ordering Dynamics in a Random Field, S. Puri and Nita Parekh, J. Phys. A 26, 2777 (1993).
    • Non-algebraic Domain Growth in Binary Alloys with Quenched Disorder, S. Puri and Nita Parekh, J. Phys. A 25, 4127 (1992).
    • Non-algebraic Domain Growth in Random Magnets: A Cell Dynamical Approach, S. Puri, D. Chowdhury, and Nita Parekh, J. Phys. A 24, L1087 (1991).
    • A New Numerical Scheme for the Fisher Equation, Nita Parekh and S. Puri, J. Phys. A 23, L1085 (1990).

Invited Lectures / Presentations / Conferences

    • SVINGS: Structural Variants Identification in Next Generation Sequence data, Prashanthi Dharanipragada, Sriharsha Vogeti and Nita Parekh, oral presentation at 8th Edition of Young Researchers in Life Science (YRLS) Conference, 15-17 May, Institut Imagine, Paris, France (2017).
    • Meta-analysis of Drought-Tolerant Rice Genotypes: A Network-based Approach, Sanchari Sircar and Nita Parekh, oral presentation at the 7th Edition of YRLS Conference, 18 - 20 May, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (2016)
    • Copy Number Variation Detection Workflow using Next Generation Sequencing Data, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh, oral presentation in International Conference on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BSB-2016) on 4th - 6th March 2016, IIIT, Allahabad. (best presentation award)
    • Invited lecture titled Biological Network Analysis - A Graph Theoretic Approach in the workshop Applications of Open Source Computer Tools for Biology, on 21 - 22 March, at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (2016).
    • Functional Analysis of Copy Number Variations in DLBCL Pathogenesis, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh, poster presented in Accelerating Biology 2016 - Decoding the Deluge, January 19-21, CDAC Pune (2016).
    • CCPM V3.4: Towards Collaborative Metabolomics, I. Ghosh, A. Mitra, Nita Parekh, V. Pudi, B. Chakrabarty, P. Dharanipragada, R. Gurrapu, K. Narendra Babu, S. Manoj Kumar, S. R. Kiran Raj, M. Manoj Kumar, V.P. Srivani, V. Dharma Teja, poster presentation in 3rd International Plant Physiology Congress (IPPC-2015), Dec 11 - 14, JNU, New Delhi (2015).
    • CCPM V3.4: Towards Collaborative Metabolomics, I. Ghosh, A. Mitra, Nita Parekh, V. Pudi, B. Chakrabarty, P. Dharanipragada, R. Gurrapu, K. Narendra Babu, S. Manoj Kumar, S. R. Kiran Raj, M. Manoj Kumar, V.P. Srivani, V. Dharma Teja, poster presentation in 7th Annual Meeting of Proteomics Society - India (PSI), Dec 3 - 6, VIT University, Vellore (2015).
    • Detection of Copy Number Variations from Next Generation Sequencing Data, Sriharsha Vogeti, Prashanthi Dharanipragada, Anwesha Mohapatra, Shanta Pendkar and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), Nov 23 - 24, Biopolis, Singapore (2015).
    • Copy Number Variation Analysis of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) Subtypes, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in 19th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Apr 12 - 15, Warsaw, Poland (2015).
    • Co-Expression Network Analysis of Rice under Drought Stress: Identifying Functional Modules and Genes, Sanchari Sircar and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in The Indo-French seminar on 'Women in Science' through CEFIPRA, 3-5 Feb, 2015, IISC, Bangalore.
    • Copy Number Variation Analysis of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) Subtypes, Prashanthi Dharanipragada and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in The Big Data Analysis and Translation in Disease Biology (Indo-US Bilateral Conferences-cum-Workshop), 18-22 Jan, 2015, JNU, New Delhi. (best poster award)
    • PRIGSA: Protein Repeat Identification by Graph Spectral Analysis, oral presentation in International Conference on Genome Informatics, GIW ISCB-ASIA 2014, 15–17, Dec, 2014, Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan.
    • Invited lecture titled "Graph Theoretical Approach for Detection of Structural Protein Repeats", in International Conference on Computation Intelligence: Health and Disease, 27-28 Dec, IBCB, Visakhapatnam (2014).
    • Invited lecture titled "Guide to Protein Structure Prediction" in National Workshop in Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery, 26 - 31 Dec, Osmania University, Hyderabad (2014).
    • Invited lecture titled "Graph Theoretical Approach for Detection of Structural Protein Repeats, in National Conference on Bioinformatics Drug Discovery and Microbial Technology, 22 - 24 Dec, Osmania University, Hyderabad (2014).
    • Relaxed Neighbor Based Graph Transformations For Effective Preprocessing: A Function Prediction Case Study, D. Satheesh Kumar, Krishna Reddy and Nita Parekh, oral presentation in Big Data Analytics 2014, Dec 20-23, New Delhi (2014).
    • Invited talk titled "Guide to Protein Structure Prediction", in National Workshop on Bioinformatics tools in Diabetic Research, 16-17 Aug, IBCB, Visakhapatnam (2014).
    • Analysis of Chimera States in Non-locally Coupled Logistic Maps, Pranneetha B and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in Dynamics Days Asia-Pacific 08, IIT-M and IMSc, Chennai, 21-24 July (2014).
    • Robustness of Chimera States in Non-locally coupled Logistic Maps, Pranneetha B and Nita Parekh, oral presentation in The 7th Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference (CHAOS2014), 7-10 June, Lisbon Portugal (2014), link
    • Invited talk titled "What's hidden in a Hidden Markov Model" in National Level Workshop on Biostatistics and Its Applications in Biomedical Research, 24-28 Mar, NIN, Hyderabad (2014).
    • Gene Co-expression Network Analysis of Oryza sativa under Abiotic Stress, Sanchari Sircar and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in Accelerating Biology 2014 - Computing Life, 18 - 20 Feb, CDAC Pune (2014). (best oral presentation award)
    • Graph based Identification of Structural Repeats in Proteins, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in International Symposium on Chemistry with Computers, 18-19 Jan, IICT-Hyderabad (2014).
    • Invited lecture titled "Clustering Microarray Data" in Current Issues and Applications of Statistical Methods, 3rd Jan, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad, (2014).
    • Graph based Identification of Structural Repeats in Proteins, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB), 20-22 Sept, Taicang, China (2013). (best poster award)
    • Identifying Tandem Structural Repeats in Proteins by Graph Spectral Analysis, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in Current Trends in Computational Natural Sciences (CTCNS 2013), 17 February, IIIT-Hyderabad (2013).
    • Network Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana, Veena Shinde and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in Current Trends in Computational Natural Sciences (CTCNS 2013), 17 February, IIIT-Hyderabad (2013).
    • Identifying Structural Tandem Repeats in Proteins By Graph Spectral Analysis, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in International Conference on Biomolecular Forms and Functions: A celebration of 50 years of the Ramachandran map, 8–11 Jan, IISc Bangalore (2013).
    • Invited talk titled "Comparative Genomics: An Overview" in a day Refresher Course on Current Research Trends in Biotechnology, 18 - 22 Dec, SNIST, Hyderabad (2014).
    • Analysis of Graph Centrality Measures for Identifying Ankyrin Repeats, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, oral presentation in World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), 30 Oct - 2 Nov, Trivandrum (2012).
    • Identification of Ankyrin Repeats in Three-Dimensional Protein Structures, Broto Chakrabarty and Nita Parekh, poster and oral presentation in the Accelerating Biology 2012, CDAC Pune, 15 - 17 February (2012). (third prize in oral presentation)
    • Construction and Analysis of Enzyme Centric Network of A. thaliana using Graph Theory, Kasthuribai Viswanathan and Nita Parekh, oral presentation in International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications and Knowledge Discovery (SCAKD-2011), Moscow, Russia, 25th June (2011).
    • Analysis of Centrality Measures of Airport Network of India, Manasi Sapre and Nita Parekh, oral presentation in 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI’11), Moscow, Russia, June 27 – July 1 (2011).
    • Construction and Analysis of Metabolic Network of Arabidopsis thaliana Pathways, Kasthuribai Viswanathan and Nita Parekh, poster presentation in The 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'11), USA, July 18–21, (2011).
    • Analysis of Airport Network of India (ANI), Manasi Sapre and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Bangalore, 7 – 9 Dec, (2010).
    • Invited lecture titled “Graph Spectral Analysis of Protein Structures” at the National Workshop on Bioinformatics, Vijaywada, 30th Sept., (2010).
    • Controlling Dynamical Networks, Raina Arora and Nita Parekh, oral presentation at CHAOS2010, The 3rd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece June 1 - 4 (2010).Report no: IIIT/TR/2010/81
    • Controlling Spatiotemporal Dynamics on Small World Topology, Raina Arora and Nita Parekh, oral presentation at ICARUS (Indian Conference for Academic Research by Undergraduate Students) at IIT, Kanpur, 26 - 28 March (2010).link
    • Graph Spectral Analysis of Protein Structures – Domain Identification, Institute of Life Sciences, Hyderabad, 17th Feb. (2010).
    • Graph Spectral Analysis of Protein Structures – Domain Identification, ICRISAT, Hyderabad, 11th Feb. (2010).
    • Controlling Dynamics in Different Topological Networks, Raina Arora and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at International Conference on Frontiers of Interface between Statistics and Sciences, CR Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad, 30 Dec 2009 – 2 Jan 2010. Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/248
    • Comparative Analysis of Metabolic Networks, Shubhi Gupta and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at International Conference on Frontiers of Interface between Statistics and Sciences, CR Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad, 30 Dec 2009 – 2 Jan 2010.Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/251
    • Identifying Structural Repeats in Proteins using Graph Centrality Measures, Ruchi Jain, Hari Krishna Yalamanchili and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC), Coimbatore, 9 – 11 Dec. (2009).Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/174
    • Dynamical Networks, Raina Arora and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at Symposium on Theoretical and Mathematical Biology, IISER, Pune, 10 – 11, October (2009).Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/249
    • Graph Spectral Approach for Identifying Protein Domains, Hari Krishna Yalamanchili and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at Symposium on Theoretical and Mathematical Biology, IISER, Pune, 10 – 11, October (2009).
    • Graph Spectral Approach for Identifying Protein Domains, Hari Krishna Yalamanchili and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at the 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 8-10 April (2009).
    • Gene Identification in silico, Nita Parekh, in proceedings of the National Workshop on Bioinformatics Computing, Sri Sathya Sai University, Prasanthinilayam, Puttaparthy, 6-7 March (2009).
    • Graph Spectral Analysis of Protein Structures, delivered invited lecture in the DST sponsored Bioinformatics Training Program for Senior Scientists/Technologists (working with Government of India) on Perspectives and Current Trends in Bioinformatics, CCMB, Hyderabad, 12-18 February (2009). Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/72
    • Graph Spectral Approach for Identifying Protein Domains, Hari Krishna Yalamanchili and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at National Symposium on Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, CCMB, Hyderabad 22-24 January (2009). Report no: IIIT/TR/2009/72.
    • CompreSNPdb: Comprehensive Data-mining Workflow for SNPs, Genes, Diseases and Pathways, Anshu Bhardwaj, Ajeet Pandey, P Krishna Manjari, V Kiran Kumar, Nita Parekh, Shrish Tiwari, poster presentation at HGM2008, HUGO’s 13th Human Genome Meeting, Hyderabad, 27-30 Sept (2008). link
    • Graph Spectral Analysis of Protein Repeat Families, Nita Parekh, delivered invited lecture and published in the proceedings of the AICTE sponsored National Conference on Recent Developments and Applications of Probability Theory, Random Process and Random Variables in Computer Science, MACFAST, Tiruvalla, 27 – 29 August (2008). Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/186
    • Identifying Genomic Islands in Prokaryotic Genomes, Ruchi Jain and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at the International Conference on Bioinformatics & Drug Discovery, held at Hyderabad Central University, 20-22, Dec(2007).Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/28 (Awarded 2nd best poster prize)
    • Protein Tandem Repeat DataBase, Krishna Manjari, V. Kiran Kumar, Rima Kumari and Nita Parekh, poster presentation at the International Conference on Bioinformatics & Drug Discovery, Hyderabad Central University, 20-22, Dec(2007). Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/69 (Awarded 5th best poster prize)
    • Participated in the Workshop on Structural Biology organized by Indian National Science Academy & Chinese Academy of Sciences, IISc Bangalore, 21 - 23 Dec. (2007).
    • Delivered two invited lectures in the DST sponsored Bioinformatics Training Program for Senior Scientists/ Technologists (working with Government of India) on "Perspectives and Current Trends in Bioinformatics", titled: (i) Genomic Variations and its applications, (ii) Identifying Tandem Repeats in Protein Sequences, CCMB, Hyderabad, 12 - 18 Sept. (2007).
    • PEPPER – A Tool for Identifying Peptide Periodic Repeats, Kasturi K. Kiran, Radhika B. and Nita Parekh poster presentation at International Conference on Bioinformatics (INCOB), New Delhi, 18-20 Dec. (2006). Report no: IIIT/TR/2008/38.
    • Invited lecture on Gene Prediction in silico at National Workshop on Bioinformatics, organized by R&D Unit, J.N.T.U. Hyderabad, 8-9 July (2006).
    • Invited lecture on Gene Prediction in silico at National Seminar on Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, organized by Bioinformatics Centre, Pondicherry University, 15 – 17 Feb. (2006). Report no: IIIT/TR/2006/31
    • Invited Bioinformatics Tutorial on Computational Issues in Gene Prediction, at 40th National Convention of Computer Society India, hosted by CSI Hyderabad Chapter, 9 – 12 Nov. (2005).
    • Invited lecture in a Refresher Course on Recent Trends in Biotechnology, Centre for Biotechnology, J.N.T.U., Hyderabad, 13th June – 6th July (2005).
    • Participated - Refresher Course on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Biology, organized by Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and CCMB, Hyderabad, 25 May – 8 June (2005).
    • GUI for Stand-alone BLAST on Unix/Linux Platform, Nandan Kumar, Nita Parekh and Shrish Tiwari, developed and installed on Alpha ES45 server at CCMB. Report no: IIIT/TR/2005/13
    • Delivered three invited lectures in the Lecture Programme on Biostatistics and Mathematical Modeling, titled: (1) Cluster Analysis – Applications in Bioinformatics, (2) Regression, Correlation and ANOVA, and (3) Control of Spatiotemporal Population Dynamics, Dept. of Zoology, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 6 – 8 Nov. (2004).
    • Tool for Identifying Absolute Location of Genes on Human Chromosome, presented at National Seminar on Systems Approach to Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Centre, Pondicherry University, 18 - 20, Feb. (2004). Report no: IIIT/TR/2004/31
    • Participated - Lecture Course on Proteomics and DNA Microarrays, 7th ADNAT Convention, CCMB, Hyderabad, February 25 – March 10 (2003).
    • Invited lecture on Targeting Spatiotemporal Dynamical States Using Constant Pinnings, at Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, USA, 8 Feb. (2000).
    • Invited lecture on Control of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Map lattices Using Constant Pinnings, Colloquium Lecture at the Department of Physics, The Catholic University of America, Sept. (2000).
    • Global and Local Control of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Map Lattices, poster presentation in The 5th Experimental Chaos Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, 28 June - 1 July (1999).
    • Lecture at JNCAR, Bangalore, titled Targetting Spatiotemporal Dynamical States Using Constant Pinnings, 24 June (1998).
    • Suppressing Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Map Lattices Using Constant Pinnings, oral presentation in The Nonlinear Dynamics and Brain Functioning, I.I.Sc. Bangalore, 5-11 Feb. (1998).
    • Suppression of Spatiotemporal Chaos in Coupled Map Lattices, oral presentation in Nonlinear Dynamics: Integrability and Chaos, Dept. of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, 12-16, February (1998).
    • Controlling Chaos in Logistic Coupled Map Lattices, lecture at JNCAR, Bangalore, 12 Dec (1997).
    • Characterization and Control of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Chemical Reaction Diffusion Systems, invited lecture at CMMACS Bangalore, 9 Dec. (1997).
    • International Conference on Dynamical Systems, participated, I.I.Sc., Bangalore, Jan. 10 - 15 (1997).
    • Participated - Second SERC Winter School on Chemical Applications of Statistical Mechanics, Department of Science and Technology and Department of Chemistry and RSIC, I.I.T. Bombay, Nov 28 – Dec 15, 1994.
    • Pattern Formation in Spatially Extended Systems, Ph.d. thesis presentation in the DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 27-31, Dec. (1994).
    • Phase Ordering Dynamics in a Gravitational Field, poster presentation in the XIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Unesco-Sourborne-Paris, France, 18-23, July (1994).
    • Phase Ordering Dynamics in Disordered Systems, oral presentation in the National Seminar on Computational Aspects in Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Maharajas College, Cochin, 21 - 25, March (1994).
    • Domain Growth in Disordered and Fractal Systems, oral presentation in the DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, S.V. University, Tirupati, Dec 28 1992 – Jan 1 (1993).