INDEX: 001LOC: 30.6652° N, 76.7291° ESTATUS: EXPLORING BIOLOGY & MACHINE LEARNING

Manvendra Singh.Exploring livingsystems in silico.

A second-year BSMS student at IISER Mohali interested in working at the intersection of machine learning and biology. Building and documenting under the xeonn moniker.

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About

I'm a second-year BSMS student at IISER Mohali, pursuing biology and math as my pre-majors. I am fundamentally interested in how living systems store information in sequences and how a cell recognizes and responds to these signals. I use Python as a tool to learn more about biological systems, whether that means modelling a population over time or trying to predict what a protein's amino acid sequence reveals about its localisation.

FIG. 1.0 // BIOLOGICAL INQUIRY

Sequences and Proteins

Currently, my curiosity centers on the question of how a protein's amino acid sequence influences its localisation within a biological system. I am particularly interested in using protein language models to predict protein localisation, and what such a model actually picks up to make such predictions.

Sequence AnalysisProtein LocalisationProtein Language ModelsMachine Learning
FIG. 1.1 // TOOLS & COMMUNITY

In Silico Modelling & Campus Life

To explore concepts hands-on, I write Python scripts and simulations and learn along the way. I have a strong foundation in programming to tackle challenges ranging from building class-based simulations to writing scripts for shortest superstring overlap questions on Rosalind. On campus, I participate frequently in the Turing Club, the computational club of IISER Mohali, where I build the front-end for institute event websites or design an app's UI/UX flow in Figma.

PythonWeb DevelopmentBioinformaticsSimulations
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Projects

Selected independent and self-guided projects. Open source and documented on GitHub.

PRJ-0012025

RamaCLI

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

A Python-based command-line tool for visualizing Ramachandran plots directly from a PDB ID, facilitating the analysis of protein structures in bioinformatics.

PRJ-0022026

Locus

GENETICS

A highly customizable, dynamic Python-based spatial genetic engine (1 locus, 2 alleles) that simulates a deer population evolving over time.

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Contact

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Open to discussing shared interests, research ideas, or potential collaborations.