<BODY><P>Dear all ,</P>
<P>I am a Masters Student in Computational Biology at University of Southern California. I am looking for a good project to work on related to my skills. Can anyone suggest me where to start from or how can I contribute. </P>
<P>Thank You</P>
<P>Jinal Jhaveri</P>
<P>My Skill set and Resume is as follows:</P>
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<P align=left>Jinal Jhaveri</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
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<P align=left>Main Capability Areas</P></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=3>
<P align=left>Bio-Informatics</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>More than Two years of experience in Following fields :</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Development and Testing of Bio-Informatics Tools using PERL, Java, C, C++.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Standard Bio-Informatics algorithms and tools (Smith-Waterman, BLAST, FASTA algorithms,</P>
<P align=left>GCG Wisconsin package, Bioperl, Entrez, Ensembl, ClustalW, etc.).</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Searching and interpreting the results of major Biological Databases (GenBank, SWISSPROT,</P>
<P align=left>EMBL, Micro-array Database, NAR, YPD, SGD, GRAIL, Mfold, Pfam, TREMBL,</P>
<P align=left>PROSITE, Gene Ontology etc.).</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Strong background in sequence analysis (pair-wise comparison, multiple sequence</P>
<P align=left>alignment, sequence motif identification, Dynamic Programming, Suffice trees, Exact-Inexact</P>
<P align=left>Pattern Matching, Pattern Recognition, Phylogenetic Analysis and HMM).</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>NCBI Tools for Data Mining, Bio-PERL, Expression Profile, etc.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Population Genetics tools / Sequencing Tools (Phrap, Phred, Consed, Vector NTI, Primer3).</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Statistical Analysis Tools like R, Mathematica, Matlab.</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial>
<P align=left>Computer Science</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Languages: </B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>PERL</FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>, </B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>C, C++</FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>, </B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Java, C#.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Application Development</B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>: Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual Java.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Databases</B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>: MySQL , Oracle, SQL Server.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Web Skills</B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>: CGI, DBI, PHP, Java Servlets, Web Services, XML.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Distributed / Parallel Programming</B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>: PVM, MPI, .NET (using C#).</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Design/Project Tools: </B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Microsoft Project, Rational Rose, Easy Win Win, CVS.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Operating Systems</B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X.</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial>
<P align=left>Work Experience</P></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=3>
<P align=left>Bio-Informatics Developer/ Research Assistant (June 2001- Current)</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>(Center for Computational and Experimental Genomics, Nordborg Lab University of Southern</P>
<P align=left>California, Los Angeles, USA)</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed and Tested PRIMERKING software , the only software for design and selection of</P>
<P align=left>PCR primers , having Fragment Duplication Check, Primer Dimer Check, Quality Check,</P>
<P align=left>MySQL interaction capabilities. Also involved in analyzing the primers by looking at coding</P>
<P align=left>and non-coding primers, gene and non-gene primers and their effect on PCR.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Created a Polymorphism Database for storing SNP information for Arabidopsis Thaliana</P>
<P align=left>(NSF 2010 Project- http://walnut.usc.edu).</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed/Wrote/Tested several algorithms for SNP detection, sequence alignment, Blast</P>
<P align=left>Parsing,</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wrote a parallel version of Blast , making the blast program parallel on a 16 node Beowulf</P>
<P align=left>Cluster</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wrote different tools for Sequence Cleaning, Sequence Storing and Quality Checking of</P>
<P align=left>Sequence.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Installed/Used different Bio-Informatics software like phrep, phred, consed, standalone blast,</P>
<P align=left>bio-perl.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed a Web Interface for the Polymorphism Database using PERL, CGI, DBI, HTML,</P>
<P align=left>Java Script.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Administered linux systems and LDAP server and established a single sign-on schema for</P>
<P align=left>mac server and mac, linux and windows clients.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed Blast Ouput Parser. Also developed XML AND XSL parsers.</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=3>
<P align=left>Software Engineer Intern, Medisys Inc (for Sun Microsystems Inc.) (Dec 2001 - May</P>
<P align=left>2002)</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Functional, UI, Regression, Acceptance, Performance and Integration Tested SUN’s</P>
<P align=left>proprietary applications, wrote test plans, instructional documents.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Involved in different projects like Single Sign-on for Sun Microsystems Partner Portal, Single</P>
<P align=left>Sign-on Database, etc using Java (Servlets, Applets and SWING). Designed and Coded</P>
<P align=left>different algorithms for single sign-on system. Testing the GUI, etc.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed a Banking Web Service using C#.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed LDAP parsers for Single Sign-on Interface.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Writing Testing Scripts to test the GUI for Single Sign-on.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Automation of Tests for testing the database interactivity.</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=3>
<P align=left>Research Assistant (Nov 2000-June 2001)</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Ilab- Neuroscience Lab</P>
<P align=left>University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed a Parallel Saliency Based Visual Attention Model and made it Parallel on 16 node</P>
<P align=left>Linux Beowulf Cluster using PVM and C++. Involved in writing perl scripts for Neuro-</P>
<P align=left>Informatics and developing a web interface for the same.</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Other Projects at The Center of Computational and Experimental Genomics</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Implemented and Tested a Front-End GUI for editing aligned sequence, using X Windows on</P>
<P align=left>Linux Systems.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Implemented the linear time algorithm of Suffix Tree. And developed Human Genome Suffix</P>
<P align=left>Tree for all 23 Chromosomes.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Implemented Genbank XML parsers.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Implemented a linear Exact Pattern Matching Algorithm.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Implemented a High Available NFS Server for Bio-Informatics (Arabidopsis Thaliana) Data</P>
<P align=left>Stored on Linux Server.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Optimized SUIF Compiler, added modules to identify loops, Basic Blocks, Control Graphs</P>
<P align=left>and Register Allocation.</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Developed a Query Server for searching Multiple Bio-Informatics Databases.</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Bio-Informatics Courses</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Advanced Molecular Biology Applied Probability</P>
<P align=left>DNA and Protein Sequence Analysis Statistical Inference</P>
<P align=left>Advance Databases Computational Biology Lab</P>
<P align=left>Advanced topic in Statistical Consulting</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial>
<P align=left>Education</P></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Master of Science, Computational Biology (Bio-Informatics)</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Master of Science, Computer Science</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, India</P></FONT><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<P align=left>Awards/Membership</P></B></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Graduate Scholarship from USC, Computational Genomic Center, for Masters in Computer</P>
<P align=left>Science and Masters in Computational Biology (NSF Project).</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Selected for Graduate Trainee Bio-Informatics Conference at 7</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=1>th </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lake Tahoe Symposium by</P>
<P align=left>Alfred Sloan Foundation</P></FONT><FONT face=Symbol size=2>
<P align=left>· </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Member of MENSA.</FONT><B><FONT face=Arial></P>
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