Lab news and updates

Lab news and updates:

* Jul 2026: A quantum network (QN) is a network of entangled states, which can be used for the transmittance of quantum information. Constructing QNs requisites strong entanglement between distant stations to enhance security and efficiency. Real-world noise weakens these links. Combining quantum mechanics with statistical physics, by use of percolation theory, can strengthen connections in a network of mostly weak ones. Past methods disconnected intermediate stations. General concurrence percolation (GCP) introduced in takes a geometric approach and enhances entanglement along the shortest paths. GCP turns a sparse grid into a dense network, decisively mitigating the entanglement threshold required to connect the entire system.

* Oct 2024: Special Issue on "Statistical Physics and Complex Systems" in Indian Journal of Physics (Springer). Editors: Deepak Dhar & Soumen Roy

* Jun 2021: Networks with a scale-free degree distribution are widely thought to promote cooperation in various games. In Europhysics Letters [EPL] 134 60002 (2021), we demonstrate that this is not necessarily true. For the same degree distribution and indeed the very same degree sequence, we present a variety of possible behaviour. We also reevaluate the dependence of cooperation on network clustering and assortativity.

* Jan 2021: Our paper presenting a rigorous mathematical approach on how to compare two networks with common or identical nodes, is now published in Bioinformatics [Oxford]. This approach immediately presents a fresh, broad and general framework to address mutagenesis and has the potential to deliver systems-level perspectives. We computationally explore phenotypic alterations arising from mutations in five microbes, each from a different taxon. We generate a mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155, which is resistant to mycobacteriophage D29 and is characterised with significant phenotypic alterations. We scrutinise the effectiveness of our procedure through extensive theoretical and experimental tests on this system.

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* Jul 2020: Our collaborators from Devrani Mitra Lab have directly verified the results predicted earlier by us in Bioinformatics [Oxford, 31, 3608-3616 (2015). The results have just been published in Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics (2020).

* Dec 2018: Our paper proposing topologically inspired walks on randomly connected landscapes with correlated fitness is published in Frontiers in Physics

* Jan 2018: Our lab's first copyright entitled "Software for analyzing videos of application or function for feature identification of the videos and related application or function" is now registered.

* Jan 2016: Matthieu Alfaro (IMAG - Universite Montpellier) and Gael Raoul (CMAP - Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) visit our lab.

* Jul 2015: Rajdeep's first research paper, "Mapping networks of light-dark transition in LOV photoreceptors" is published in Bioinformatics (Oxford).

* Jun 2015: Our lab's first patent entitled "A system and method for analyzing videos of application or function for feature identification of the videos and related application or function" is now filed.

* Feb 2015: Soumya Jyoti's first research paper which proposes edge proximity metric and captures slow-poisoning and destruction of networks appears in Physical Review E.

* Jan 2015: We have been awarded a grant on "Propagation of fronts in cooperative microbial populations" from Indo-French Center for Applied Mathematics (2015-17).

* Mar 2014: Perspectives in Systems Biology, the special issue of "Systems and Synthetic Biology (Springer)" is published.