Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
AI & Machine Learning, Programming, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Single Cell RNA-seq, Spatial Transcriptomics, Bulk RNA-Seq, ChipSeq, Cut & Run, Proteomics, Placental developmental Biology, Stem, Genomic Medicine Cells
Omics study in Placental development, AI & Machine learning in lncRNAs, Circular RNAs & Genomics alteration & impact
Mail: rajnish.kumar@sru.edu.in
Ph.D in Bioinformatics from Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad
M.Tech in IT(Specialization in Bioinformatics) from Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad
B.Sc in Mathematics from Tilka Manghi Bhagalpur University
Postdoc, Senior Scientist at University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas,USA, from 2021-10-11 to 2026-07-31.
Bioinformatics Scientist at Neuberg Supratech Reference Labs, Ahmedabad, from 2019-07-01 to 2021-09-15.
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Chawla, Vandna, Rajnish Kumar, and Ravi Shankar. “Identifying Wrong Assemblies in de Novo Short Read Primary Sequence Assembly Contigs.” Journal of Biosciences 41, no. 3 (September 2016).
Kumar, Rajnish, Bharat Kumar Mishra, Tapobrata Lahiri, Gautam Kumar, Nilesh Kumar, Rahul Gupta, and Manoj Kumar Pal. “PCV: An Alignment Free Method for Finding Homologous Nucleotide Sequences and Its Application in Phylogenetic Study.” Interdisciplinary Sciences, Computational Life Sciences 9, no. 2 (29 January 2017): 173–83.
Pal, Manoj Kumar, Tapobrata Lahiri, Garima Tanwar, and Rajnish Kumar. “An Improved Protein Structure Evaluation Using a Semi-Empirically Derived Structure Property.” BMC Structural Biology 18, no. 1 (December 12, 2018): 16.
Kumar, Rajnish, and Tapobrata Lahiri. “EcircPred: Sequence and Secondary Structural Property Based Computational Identification of Exonic Circular RNAs.” Computational Biology and Chemistry 77 (1 December 2018): 28–35.
Pal, Manoj Kumar, Tapobrata Lahiri, and Rajnish Kumar. “ProtPCV: A Fixed Dimensional Numerical Representation of Protein Sequence to Significantly Reduce Sequence Search Time.” Interdisciplinary Sciences, Computational Life Sciences 12, no. 3 (September 2020): 276–87.
Kumar, Gautam, Rajnish Kumar, Manoj Kumar Pal, Nilotpal Pramanik, Tapobrata Lahiri, Ankita Gupta, and Saket Pandey. “APT: An Automated Probe Tracker from Gene Expression Data.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 18, no. 5 (2021): 1864–74.
Ray, Soma, Abhik Saha, Ananya Ghosh, Namrata Roy, Ram P. Kumar, Gudrun Meinhardt, Abhirup Mukerjee, Sumedha Gunewardena, Rajnish Kumar, Martin Knöfler, Soumen Paul. “Hippo Signaling Cofactor, WWTR1, at the Crossroads of Human Trophoblast Progenitor Self-Renewal and Differentiation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119, no. 36 (September 6, 2022): e2204069119.
Kumar, Rajnish, Rajkrishna Mondal, Tapobrata Lahiri, and Manoj Kumar Pal. “Application of Sequence Semantic and Integrated Cellular Geography Approach to Study Alternative Biogenesis of Exonic Circular RNA.” BMC Bioinformatics 24, no. 1 (April 17, 2023): 148
Ghosh A, Kumar R, Kumar RP, Ray S, Saha A, Roy N, Dasgupta P, Marsh C, Paul S. The GATA transcriptional program dictates cell fate equilibrium to establish the maternal-fetal exchange interface and fetal development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Feb 20;121(8).
Dasgupta P, Kumar R, Ray S, Roy N, Niloy AJ, Vallakati M, Marsh C, Arnold SJ, Paul S. Arginine methyltransferase PRMT1 equipoises trophoblast development to prevent early pregnancy loss. Nat Commun. 2026 Jul 10;17(1):8543.