Introduction to Bioinformatics

Dr. Mrs. V. Kothekar is professor and head of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology. She had been a faculty at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi from 1969 and took voluntary retirement from the post of Professor of Biophysics in 2001 and joined as a Senior Scientist GBKbioSciences Private Ltd. She has worked extensively in modeling and simulation of ligand-receptor interactions, drug-designing, comparative proteins modeling and development of software for molecular modeling and analysis of macromolecular interactions. She had been visiting Fellow at Institute of Biologic et Physico Chimique, Paris in Prof. Pullman’s laboratory; National foundation for cancer research (NFCR) fellow at Roswell Park Memorial Hospital Buffalo, New York, in Prof. Rein’s Laboratory; INSA Visiting fellow to USSR Academy of Sciences. She is fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India, Founder fellow of Indian Academy of Medical Physics, Fellow of New York Academy of Sciences, ex-vice president of Indian Biophysical Society and life member of various international and national societies.