Biomedical and Translational Informatics Laboratory

Shefali S. Verma

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Lead Bioinformatics Scientist

A301 Richards Building 
3700 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104


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Current Projects

Analysis and Imputations for eMERGE Datasets.
GWAS and Interactions Analysis on different Phenotypes.

Education

MS Bioinformatics
New Jersey Institute of Technology
2010

Work Experience

Research Assistant-II
Bordenstein Lab
Vanderbilt University
2010-2011

Publications

Google Scholar

  • Next-generation analysis of cataracts: determining knowledge driven gene-gene interactions using Biofilter, and gene-environment interactions using the PhenX Toolkit. Pendergrass SA, Verma SS, Holzinger ER, Moore CB, Wallace J, Dudek SM, Huggins W, Kitchner T, Waudby C, Berg R, McCarty CA, Ritchie MD.
  • Insect Innate Immunity Database (IIID): an annotation tool for identifying immune genes in insect genomes. Brucker RM, Funkhouser LJ, Setia S, Pauly R, Bordenstein SR.
  • Evolutionary genomics of a temperate bacteriophage in an obligate intracellular bacteria (Wolbachia).Kent BN, Funkhouser LJ, Setia S, Bordenstein SR.
  • On comparing two structured RNA multiple alignments. Patel V, Wang JT, Setia S, Verma A, Warden CD, Zhang K.


Conference Abstracts

  • Performance of two imputation methods on large scale data: experiences in the eMERGE network  Shefali S Verma, Gretta D Armstrong, Dana C. Crawford, Yuki Bradford, Mariza de Andrade, Iftikhar J.Kullo,Gerard Tromp, Helena Kuivaniemi, Loren L. Armstrong ,M. Geoffrey Hayes, Brendan Keating, David R. Crosslin,Gail P.Jarvik, Sarah Nelson, Bahram Namjou, Ebony B. Bookman, Rongling Li, Marylyn D Ritchie
  • Discovery and replication of genetic interactions for quantitative lipid traits E.R Holzinger, M.Farrall, F.Drenos, C.B Moore, I.B.C Lipid Working Group, S.S. Verma, H.Watkins, F.W Asselbers, B.J Keating, M.D. Ritchie
  • Merging Genomic Data for Research in Electronic MEdical Records and Genomics Network : Lessons Learned in eMERGE  Marylyn D Ritchie, Shefali S Verma, Gretta D Armstrong, Loren Armstrong, Dana C. Crawford,, David R Crosslin, Mariza de Andrade, Kimberley F. Dohney, M. Geoffery Hayes, Gail P Jarvik,Iftikhar J.Kullo,Cathy A. McCarthy, Daniel Mirel, Lana Olson, Shaun Prucell, Elizabeth W Pugh, Gerard Tromp, Helena Kuivaniemi, Vaneet Lotay, Omri Gottesman, Jonathan L Haines
  • Next-generation analysis of cataracts: determining knowledge driven gene-gene interactions using Biofilter, and gene-environment interactions using the PhenX Toolkit. Pendergrass SA, Verma SS, Holzinger ER, Moore CB, Wallace J, Dudek SM, Huggins W, Kitchner T, Waudby C, Berg R, McCarty CA, Ritchie MD.