Chittibabu (Babu) Guda Assistant Professor School of Public Health,SUNY Address: 1 Discovery Dr GenNYsis Center for Excellence in Cancer Genomics Rensselaer, NY 12144 Phone: (518) 591-7155 Fax: 518-591-7151 E-mail: cguda@albany.edu Url:http://bioinformatics.albany.edu/~cguda

Education:

• Ph.D. Auburn University
• M.Sc (ag). ANGR Agricultural University, India
• B.Sc (ag). ANGR Agricultural University, India

Courses Frequently Taught:

BIO540: Principles of Bioinformatics (Fall Course Website)
STA670: Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics (Spring Course Website)
STA697: Introductory Workshop in Bioinformatics (Summer Course Website)

Research Interests:

Bioinformatics - Developing computational tools for predicting protein subcellular localization, protein interactions, domain interactions; reconstruction of metabolic and disease pathways, structural bioinformatics, comparative genome analysis.

Selected Publications:

Guda C
pTARGET: A web server for predicting protein subcellular localization
Nucleic Acids Research (2006) 35:W210-213 [Pubmed]

Guda C, Pal LR, Shindyalov IN.
DMAPS: A Database of Multiple Alignments for Protein Structures
Nucleic Acids Research (2006) 34: D273-276 [Pubmed]

Acquaah-Mensah GK, Leach SM, Guda C
Predicting the subcellular localization of human proteins using machine learning and exploratory data analysis.
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics (2006) 4:120-133 [Pubmed]

Guda C, Subramaniam S.
pTARGET: A new method for predicting protein sub-cellular localization in eukaryotes
Bioinformatics (2005) 21: 3963-3969 [Pubmed]

Guda C, Guda P, Fahy E, Subramaniam S.
MITOPRED: a web server for genome-scale prediction of mitochondrial proteins.
Nucleic Acids Research (2004) 32: W372-W374 [Pubmed]

Guda C, Lu S, Scheeff E, Bourne PE, Shindyalov IN.
CE-MC: A Multiple Protein Structure Alignment Server.
Nucleic Acids Research (2004) 32: W100-W103 [Pubmed]

Guda C, Fahy E, Subramaniam S.
MITOPRED: A genome-scale method for prediction of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial proteins.
Bioinformatics (2004) 20:1785-1794 [Pubmed]

Guda C, Scheeff ED, Bourne PE, Shindyalov IN.
A new algorithm for the alignment of multiple protein structures using Monte Carlo optimization.
Proceedings of the Pacific Symp. on Biocomputing (2001), pp. 275-286 [Pubmed]

Guda C, Lee SB, Daniell H.
Stable transformation of chloroplasts using a universal integration vector.
Plant Cell Reports (2000) 19:257-262 [Abstract]

Guda C, Zhang X, McPherson DT, Xu J, Cherry JH, Urry DW, Daniell H.
Hyperexpression of an environmentally friendly synthetic polymer gene.
Biotechnology Letters (1995) 17: 745-750