Dr. Vinod Scaria graduated with his MBBS in 2003 from Calicut Medical College with Gold Medals in Biochemistry and Physiology. He is currently a Scientist at the GN Ramachandran Center for Genome Informatics at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology. His major research areas are computational biology of non-coding functional RNAs, clinical genomics, genome informatics and organization of information in genomes, and integrative analysis and community annotation of genomes and large genomic datasets. His more recent publications include "Crowd sourcing a new paradigm for interactome driven drug target identification in mycobacterium tuberculosis" in PLoS One (2012) and "In vivo protein trapping produces a functional expression codex of the vertebrate proteome" in Nature Methods (2011).