Announcement


Dr. PS Solanki
Sr. Scientist,
Birla Institute of Scientific Research
&
Faculty,
Department of Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Birla Institute of Tehnology, Mesra, Jaipur Campus [VIEW]

E-MAIL:
pooransingh@bisr.res.in,
pooransingh@bitmesra.ac.in
Phone: +91-141-2385094 ext 324


RESEARCH INTEREST: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Pooran Singh Solanki has obtained his Masters Degree in Biotechnology from M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, followed by Advanced (Post Graduate) Diploma in Bioinformatics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He did his PhD in Bioinformatics from CCT, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (INDIA). His research interest is in Structural Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics which is directed towards understanding protein structure-activity relationship using computational methods. His current working area includes structure based adaptive evolution in extremophilic proteins, Understanding interaction specificity in biological complexes, Understanding genomic evolution using base frequencies. He has developed several web based tools in Bioinformatics that are available online at Bioinformatics Centre . He has established the High Performance Computing(HPC) facility from Sun Microsystems at the He has established the High Performance Computing(HPC) facility from Sun Microsystems at the institute.

For further details visit Bioinformatics Centre
LinkedIn Profile and CV

Selected Publications

  1. Priyanka Sinoliya, Pooran Singh Solanki, Ravi Ranjan Kumar Niraj, Vinay Sharma, In-silico Approach to Combat Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Targeting RelP Protein with Inhibitor Peptide to Mitigate Drug Resistance, Current Drug Discovery Technologies; Volume 22, Issue , Year 2025, e15701638337060. DOI: 10.2174/0115701638337060250121154347
  2. Pawar, Krunal, Pramodkumar P. Gupta, Pooran Singh Solanki, Ravi Ranjan Kumar Niraj, and Shanker L. Kothari. 2025. "Targeting SLC4A4: A Novel Approach in Colorectal Cancer Drug Repurposing" Current Issues in Molecular Biology 47, no. 1: 67. https://doi.org/10.3390/cimb47010067
  3. Sinoliya, Priyanka, Solanki, Pooran Singh, Niraj, Kumar Ravi Ranjan, Sharma , Vinay, De novo Designing of the Antimicrobial Peptide as a Curative Agent for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus through a Computational Approach,Recent Advances in Anti-Infective Drug Discovery, volume 19, issue , pages 1-24, May 2024. ISSN: 2772-4344/2772-4352. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0127724344297458240415113008.
  4. Sinoliya Priyanka, Solanki Singh Pooran, Niraj Kumar Ravi Ranjan and Sharma Vinay*, Computational Study of Antimicrobial Peptides for Promising Therapeutic Applications Against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Current Computer-Aided Drug Design, volume 20, issue, pages 1-14, year 2024, issn 1573-4099/1875-6697. https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0115734099285473240101111303 (Published - 12 Jan 2024).
  5. Sinoliya Priyanka, Solanki Singh Pooran, Piplani Sakshi, Kumar Niraj Ravi Ranjan*, Sharma Vinay, Anti-microbial Peptides against Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Promising Therapeutics, Current Protein & Peptide Science 2023; 24(2) . DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1389203724666221216115850 .
  6. Rajpurohit, S., Solanki, P. S., Mayekar, H., Arya, H., Aradhya, R., Suravajhala, P., & Loeschcke, V. (Oct 2023). Tropical high-altitude insects show limited capacity to handle high temperatures. BioRxiv. October 16, 2023. (Preprint)- https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.10.507406 .
  7. Chaturvedi, P., Saxena, V. L., Raina, V., Solanki, P. S., & Chaturvedi, A. (2022). Can Spices Cure Flu? A Multiple targets based Bioinformatics analysis. Research Journal of Pharmacy and Technology, 15(11), 4881-4886. DOI: https://doi.org/10.52711/0974-360X.2022.00820 .
  8. Laha Anubhab, Prasad Anchita, Baj Kalash, Shukla Nidhi, Solanki Singh Pooran, Bandopadhyay Rajib, Nallapeta Sivaramaiah, Medicherla Mohan Krishna*, Suravajhala Prashanth*, Nigam Kumar Vinod*, Laccases as Gold Standard Enzymes for Biotechnology, Current Biotechnology 2022; 11(3).
  9. Monisha Singhal; Pragya Chaturvedi; R.K. Gothwal; M.K. Mohan; P.S. Solanki (2021). Comparative study of synonymous codon usage in bacteria growing at extreme temperatures, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2021 Vol.17 No.1, pp.53 - 68, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBRA.2021.113966
  10. Bharti Malhotra, Veenu Gupta, Pratibha Sharma, Ruchi Singh, Himanshu Sharma, Madhavi Vyas, RP Mathur, VK Mathur, Deepa Meena, Hemant Malhotra, Pragya D. Yadav, Gajanan Sapkal, Ullas PT, Gururaj Rao Deshpande, Rashmi Gunjikar, Heena Shaman, Devendra T Mourya, Nivedita Gupta, Sujit Singh, P Ravindran, Jitender Tiwari, Dimpal A. Nyayanit, Neeraj Kumar, Sameer Phalke, Anup Chugani, Sudhir Bhandari, Pooran Singh Solanki , Prashanth Suravajhala, Manila Salaria (2020). “Clinico-epidemiological and genomic profile of first Zika Virus outbreak in India at Jaipur city of Rajasthan state”, Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020, Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages 1920-1926. ISSN 1876-0341, DOI - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.10.006. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jiph.2020.10.006.
  11. Sampat Nehra, Raj Kumar Gothwal, Alok Kumar Varshney, Pooran Singh Solanki, Shivani Chandra, Poonam Meena, P.C. Trivedi, P. Ghosh (2021)."Biomanagement of Fusarium spp. associated with pulse crops, Editor(s): Ajay Kumar, Samir Droby, Food Security and Plant Disease Management, Elsevier Publisher, 2021, Chapter 21, Pages 423-452. ISSN 9780128218433, doi - https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821843-3.00010-6
  12. Sampat Nehra, Raj Kumar Gothwal, Alok Kumar Varshney, Pooran Singh Solanki, Shivani Chandra, Poonam Meena, P.C.Trivedi, P.Ghosh (2021). "Bio-management of Fusarium spp. associated with oil crops", Editor(s): Vijay Kumar Sharma, Maulin P.Shah, Shobhika Parmar and Ajay Kumar, Fungi Bio-Prospects in Sustainable Agriculture, Environment and Nano-Technology, Elsevier Publisher, Volumw: 1: Chapter 19, Pages 475-505. ISSN: 978-0-12-821394-0, doi- https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821394-0.00020-2
  13. Upadhyayula R.S., Solanki P.S., Suravajhala P., Medicherla K.M. (2019) Bioinformatics Tools for Microbial Diversity Analysis. In: Satyanarayana T., Johri B., Das S. (eds) Microbial Diversity in Ecosystem Sustainability and Biotechnological Applications. Springer Nature, Singapore, Vol-I, 2019, pp 23-47 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8315-1_2
  14. Pradeep Tiwari, Renuka Suravajhala, Sonal Gupta, Pragya Chaturvedi, Sandeep Kumar Mathur, Pooran Singh Solanki and Babita Malik (2019). A Molecular Docking and Pharmacokinetic Prediction of Thiazolidine-2, 4-dione Derivatives: Toward Novel Therapeutic Targets for Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus, International Journal for Computational Biology, Vol.8, No.1, Oct 2019, pp. 02-08 ISSN: 2278-8115, DOI: 10.34040/IJCB.8.1.2019.01
  15. Chaturvedi, P.Raina,V. Solanki,P.S., Saxena,V.L.,(2019).In silico Prediction of Anti-plasmodial Activity of Spices: Targeting Malarial Proteases, 13(8), KC01-KC06.
  16. Yadav, H, Gothwal, R K, Solanki, P S, Nehra, S, Sinha-roy, S, Ghosh, P (2014) Isolation and Characterization of Thermo-tolerant Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria From a Phosphate Mine and Their Rock Phosphate Solubilizing Abilities,Geomicrobiology Journal, vol.32 No. 6, 475-481 (2014).
  17. S. Lalwani, M. Mohan, P. Solanki, S. Singhal, S. Mathur and E. Spedicato, "An Application of the ABS Algorithm for Modeling Multiple Regression on Massive Data, Predicting the Most Influencing Factors," Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4 No. 6, 2013, pp. 907-913. ( 2013) doi: 10.4236/am.2013.46126.
  18. P. S. Solanki, M. Krishna Mohan, P. Ghosh and S. L. Kothari. "Analysis of structurally conserved atomic interactions in structural homologs of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide binding dehydrogenases." Journal of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research 4, no. 3 (2012): 28-33.
  19. Amit N, OP Jangir, PS Solanki, Vijay S, M Krishnamohan (2008) In Silico and In Vivo Study of Lens Regeneration Under the Influence of Retinoid. J Proteomics Bioinform 1: 104-108. doi:10.4172/jpb.1000016