# Introduction – Lakshitha Manivannane | Bioinformatics undergrad Student

**URL:** <https://awg.osdr.space/t/introduction-lakshitha-manivannane-bioinformatics-undergrad-student/4631>\
**Category:** AWG Discussions\
**Tags:** aiml, bioinformatics, computational-biology, multi-omics\
**Created:** [September 17, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://awg.osdr.space/t/introduction-lakshitha-manivannane-bioinformatics-undergrad-student/4631 "2026-09-17T14:41:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![lakshithamanivannane](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/awg.osdr.space/lakshithamanivannane/32/4868_2.png) [@lakshithamanivannane](https://awg.osdr.space/u/lakshithamanivannane)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://awg.osdr.space/t/introduction-lakshitha-manivannane-bioinformatics-undergrad-student/4631/1 "2026-09-17T14:41:02Z")

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Hi everyone! I’m Lakshitha, a second-year B.Tech Bioinformatics student from SIMATS, India.

I’m interested in bioinformatics, computational biology, AI/ML, multi-omics, drug discovery, structural bioinformatics, and disease research.

My current skills include Python, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, basic machine learning, Biopython, FASTA/sequence analysis, BLAST, and working with resources such as NCBI and UniProt. I also have some exposure to protein structure analysis, molecular docking, and cheminformatics.

I’ve joined the **AI/ML AWG** and **Multi-Omics AWG** , and I’m particularly interested in projects that combine biological data with machine learning to study disease mechanisms, genomics, and other complex biological systems.

I’m looking forward to learning from everyone here, contributing to projects, and collaborating with others in the community.

Excited to be part of the Discovery Hub!

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**Author:** ![rtscott2001](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/awg.osdr.space/rtscott2001/32/5_2.png) [@rtscott2001](https://awg.osdr.space/u/rtscott2001)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 6:59pm UTC](https://awg.osdr.space/t/introduction-lakshitha-manivannane-bioinformatics-undergrad-student/4631/2 "2026-09-17T18:59:01Z")

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Thats great! Make sure to spend time looking at all the data, tools to come up with new investigations. Looking at previous studies to also quite useful too cheers.

Previous work: [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=8T1QuYEAAAAJ&view\_op=list\_works&sortby=pubdate](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=8T1QuYEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate)

Data dashboard (at a glance): [https://visualization.genelab.nasa.gov/data/](https://visualization.genelab.nasa.gov/data/)  
Search portal: [https://osdr.nasa.gov/bio/repo/](https://osdr.nasa.gov/bio/repo/)

These and all quick links to data/tools/APIs, etc are here: [https://awg.osdr.space/about](https://awg.osdr.space/about)