Ranganathan’s research focuses on: protein structure comparison, prediction and modeling and function prediction; creation and mining of boutique databases for computational biology and immunology; alternate splice variants and intron-exon evolution; comparative genomics and organism-based transcription regulation; and developing Grid computing applications in bioinformatics. Ranganathan has served as the Vice President of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) since January 2000; and as the Secretary of S* Life Science Informatics Alliance since July 2000. More about her research may be found at surya.bic.nus.edu.sg/shoba.