Ongoing Projects

Manuscript Submitted

juProt: A Web Application for Comparative Analysis of Protein-Ligand Interactomes

• The web app is live at www.juprot.info

• https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/juprot

Machine Learning-Based Prediction of Diabetic Retinopathy and Nephropathy Progression: Evaluating Hornerin and SFN as Novel Biomarkers

• • In collaboration with Dr. Kaviarasan, Associate Professor, Dept of Biomedical Sciences.

  • https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/diabetic_retinopathy

Work In Progress

A Comparative Analysis of Host and Viral Determinants in Acute Hepatitis B Outcomes: A Machine Learning-Driven Approach to Biomarker Discovery

• • In collaboration with Dr. John Fletcher, Professor, Dept of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore.

Characterizing Viral Mutation Patterns in Acute Hepatitis B and Their Association with Immune Evasion and Progression to Chronic Disease

• • In collaboration with Dr. John Fletcher, Professor, Dept of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore.

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Completed Projects

Emerging clinical benefits of profiling antibody response to hepatitis B core antigen in acute hepatitis B and flares in chronic hepatitis B

• • In collaboration with Dr. John Fletcher, Professor, Dept of Clinical Virology, Christian Medical College, Vellore. Tamil Nadu, India. https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/Hepatitis_B_Mutation_R

Association of Fusobacterium nucleatum with Breast Cancer Progression and Virulence Factor Profiling in South Indian Patients

• • In collaboration with Dr. Manickavasagam M, Dept of Medical Oncology

  • https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/microbiome_R

  • https://www.kaggle.com/code/drbenedictpaul/breast-cancer-microbiome-r

    • This work was accepted, presented by my PhD Scholar, Ms. Kiruthika Vijayakumar and won second prize at the The Rencontres de Quy Nhon VII: International Biology Conference 2024, Vietnam on October 3rd, 2024

      • Presentation; Abstract

Data-Driven Insights into Breast Cancer: Analyzing Age Distribution, Hormone Status, and Methylation Patterns Using Kaggle Dataset

• Carried out for the Capstone Project as a part of the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate course on Coursera.

  • https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/breast_canceR

  • https://www.kaggle.com/code/drbenedictpaul/breast-cance-r

Incidence of virulence genes from the dental pathogen, Enterococcus faecalis

• In collaboration with Dr. Anbarasi K, Dept of Oral Medicine and Radiology

  • https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/Virulence_R

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My other R projects

Publication Metrics analysis of the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences 2023 - 2024

• https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/Publication_Metrics_R

Allocation of students for their final year research projects to faculty supervisors based on their CGPA and their preferences.

• https://github.com/drbenedictpaul/Allocate_R