Home Page of Raj Srinivasan

In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he has hitherto held. Contempt interferes with the first part of this process, and reverence with the second. Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true. This exercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.

Bertrand Russell

I am currently a research scientist in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University.

Links Pertaining to My Research

• Overview of my research interests.
• LINUS - an algorithm to predict protein structure. NOTE - These pages are still under development, as is the algorithm.
• Studies on the Hemoglobin T-->R transition.
• A brief note on hierarchy and protein folding.
• Animations of the T-->R2 transformation of Hemoglobin.
• User manual for DANSSR -a program for sequence structure analysis of proteins.
• User manual for RIBOSOME - a program to generate coordinates for peptides and proteins. NOTE - This is not a predicition of the structure of a sequence but an utility to generate coordinates in any user specified conformation. Contact me if you would like to get this program.
• Generate a hydrophobicity profile for a protein.

Miscellaneous Stuff

An unorganized collection of pages that I maintain.

Some Private pages that require an ID and password to access.

About these pages

I maintain these pages as a hobby. As such, they undergo frequent revision for no good purpose.

Comments to: raj@roselab.jhu.edu
Last updated on: November 28, 1996.

Disclaimer. These pages are definitely not an illustration of how to write effective HTML documents. The opinions on these pages, if any, may or may not be mine and may or may not reflect those of my employer.