Have an oustanding Bioinformaticist in mind? You must see this Call for Nominations: The third 'BIRD' Award 2013

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Call for Nominations

Bioclues Innovation, Research and Development (BIRD) Award for Outstanding Contributions in the area of Bioinformatics for the year 2013.

Nominations are invited for the third BIRD annual award for outstanding contributions in the area of Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics. This award is meant not just for academicians but also for scientists who have shown exemplary excellence in the field of Bioinformatics. While scientists who have been working for not-for-profit organizations will be given importance, the ones who are working for commercial organizations are no less exception if the research they have carried out has been widely honored and have made longstanding contributions

 

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Prashanth Suravajhala, PhD.
http://wiki.bioinformatics.org/prash 

“…The essence of all biological systems is that they are encoded as molecular descriptions in their genes and since genes are molecules and exert their functions through other molecules, the molecular explanation must constitute the core of understanding biological systems.” [S. Brenner, Phil. Tans. Soc. B (2010) Vol. 365, 207-212]