database of 3D domain-swapped proteins. Besides, along with James Spudich of the Stanford University and Henrik Flyvbjerg of the Technical University of Denmark, she led the project for studying coiled coil interactions in proteins, a collaborative project of the two institutions and the National Centre for Biological Sciences. Her studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 427 of them. She sits in the editorial board of Bioinformation journal and has also mentored many post-graduate, doctoral ad post-doctoral scholars in their research. Awards and honours The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded Sowdhamini the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards in 2007. She was elected as a fellow by the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2010 and she received the Human Frontier Science Program Award the same year. A year later, The Indian National Science Academy elected her as a fellow in 2011. She is also a recipient of the Bharat Jyoti Award of the India International Friendship Society. She is a J. C. Bose National Fellow of the Department of Science and Technology since 2016. Selected bibliography See also Computational chemistry Protein tyrosine phosphatase Notes References Further reading External links N-BIOS Prize recipients Indian scientific authors Living people 20th-century Indian biologists 1964 births Scientists from Tamil Nadu Indian biochemists Indian bioinformaticians Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy IIT Madras alumni Indian Institute of Science alumni Academic staff of the National Centre for Biological Sciences Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Alumni of the University of Cambridge Indian women scientists Indian women biologists