Rajeev Gangal

A 24 year long journey starting bioinformatics analysis in a Pharma MNC, to two ML-AI in drug discovery oriented startups, CRO's to pure play analytics companies. A diverse range of domains from commercial, clinical, pre-clinical R&D to Telecom. 

A common thread has been an everlasting passion to apply analytics and ML to difficult domains in particular ones that impact patients. His drug discovery software startups, leveraging AI-ML in predictive software for drug discovery (2001-2011 ) were pioneering for that decade and especially being centred in India.

Besides speaking engagements in prestigious conferences , Rajeev has published several peer reviewed papers and 2 book chapters on informatics, datascience in Lifesciences. He is also a reviewed for prestigious international journals in Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics and related areas.

Indicative Publications

Automated molecular mining and activity prediction using xml schema, xml queries, rule inference and rule engines
R Gangal, US Patent App. 12/190,626 , 93, 2009

Potential application of network descriptions for understanding conformational changes and protonation states of ABC transporters,Hegedűs T, Gyimesi G, Gáspár ME, Szalay KZ, Gangal R, Csermely P.,Curr Pharm Des. 2013;19(23):4155-72. doi: 10.2174/1381612811319230002.,Hegedűs T,Curr Pharm Des,2013,2012/11/23,,,10.2174/1381612811319230002

Reduced alphabet motif methodology for GPCR annotation,Gangal R, Kumar KK.,J Biomol Struct Dyn. 2007 Dec;25(3):299-310. doi: 10.1080/07391102.2007.10507178.,Gangal R,J Biomol Struct Dyn,2007,2007/10/17,,,10.1080/07391102.2007.10507178

SVMCRYS: an SVM approach for the prediction of protein crystallization propensity from protein sequence,Kandaswamy KK, Pugalenthi G, Suganthan PN, Gangal R.,Protein Pept Lett. 2010 Apr;17(4):423-30. doi: 10.2174/092986610790963726.,Kandaswamy KK,Protein Pept Lett,2010,2010/01/05,,,10.2174/092986610790963726

Human pol II promoter prediction: time series descriptors and machine learning,Gangal R, Sharma P.,Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Mar 1;33(4):1332-6. doi: 10.1093/nar/gki271. Print 2005.,Gangal R,Nucleic Acids Res,2005,2005/03/03,PMC552959,,10.1093/nar/gki271

Identification of catalytic residues from protein structure using support vector machine with sequence and structural features,Pugalenthi G, Kumar KK, Suganthan PN, Gangal R.,Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2008 Mar 14;367(3):630-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.01.038. Epub 2008 Jan 17.,Pugalenthi G,Biochem Biophys Res Commun,2008,2008/01/22,,,10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.01.038

Problems in measuring bacterial diversity and a possible solution,Watve MG, Gangal RM.,Appl Environ Microbiol. 1996 Nov;62(11):4299-301. doi: 10.1128/aem.62.11.4299-4301.1996.,Watve MG,Appl Environ Microbiol,1996,1996/11/01,PMC1388994,,10.1128/aem.62.11.4299-4301.1996