Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology · Hyderabad, India
Genomics · Epigenetics · Algorithms · Big Data
About UsWe study how genomic variation across Indian populations shapes health and disease — mapping structural variants and tandem repeats through large-scale sequencing, tracing epigenetic differences between cell types with single-cell genomics, and building the computational methods needed to analyze it all.
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Mapping SNPs, structural variation, and short tandem repeats across healthy Indian populations to build a reference for disease context.
02Building accurate 6mA and 5mC detection models from long-read nanopore data to study cell-type-specific gene regulation.
03Wastewater-based metagenomic surveillance for pathogen load and antimicrobial resistance across India.
04Novel algorithms for rapid tandem-repeat identification at population scale, and ML models for long-read epigenomic analysis.
Dr Hardip Patel, ANU, visited the lab, discussed with the students, and delivered a talk on “Indigenous Australian genomics resources for precision medicine”.
🎉 Onkar and Pooja presented posters at the Genomics India Conference 2026, Bengaluru.
Tej presented the work on studying DNA methylation using nanopore sequencing at the GIC 2026, Bengaluru.
Tej talks about ATaRVa at the Nanopore Tech Day at TTCRC, Kolkata.
👋 Haarika joins the lab as a Project Associate. Welcome to the lab!
📰 New paper alert! Our paper on benchmarking nanopore methylation models is out. Congratulations to the authors!
📰 ATaRVa preprint updated on BioRxiv. Congratulations to the authors!
🎉 Sofia presents her work at the ESHG meeting in Gothenburg. Kudos!!
🎉 Anukrati presents her work at the BDBio meeting in Bengaluru. Congratulations!
📰 New paper alert! Our work on studying AMR in ocular infections, in collaboration with LVPEI Hyderabad, is now out. Congratulations to the authors!
📰 New paper alert! Our study on wastewater metagenomics from metro cities in India is now out. Congratulations to the authors!
📰 New preprint alert! The flagship paper of the GenomeIndia consortium is now posted to medRxiv. This was a huge team effort, spanning many years of hardwork by close to 200 individuals from more than 20 institutes across the country!
Open-source tools built in the lab for tandem-repeat analysis, epigenomics, and genome exploration.
Sequencing technology-agnostic tandem repeat genotyper that outperforms existing tools while running an order of magnitude faster, with support for short reads, multi-threading, and motif decomposition.
GitHub → DELTAWeb application for visualizing processed RNA-seq data, built to make hypothesis testing and quick visualization accessible to researchers without coding experience.
Visit → DiviSSRIdentifies tandem repeats by encoding DNA sequence as 2-bit numbers, finding all repeats in the human genome in about 30 seconds on an everyday laptop.
GitHub → MSDBThe largest database of short tandem repeats, hosting data mined from more than 40,000 sequenced genomes with tools to compare STR profiles across organisms.
Visit → NEMONanopore Epigenetic Modification Output — 6mA identification models from raw nanopore data that surpass the accuracy of prior methods.
GitHub → PERFFast, 100% accurate identification of microsatellites from DNA sequences — finds all repeats in the human genome in under 7 minutes, single-threaded.
GitHub → RibbitIdentifies and annotates tandem repeat loci using bit-operations, resolving complex nested and compound repeat structures with lower redundancy than existing tools.
GitHub → VisuaMiTRaVisualizing allele-specific motif composition and methylation profiles of tandem repeats
GitHub →We're always looking for motivated graduate students, project associates, and post-docs interested in computational genomics. Write to us with your CV and a cover letter.
tej@ccmb.res.inCSIR–CCMB, Hyderabad 500007
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