One of the Historic moments in the course of Science where all the ideas that prevailed, will change forever. The concept of Science which was considered to be closed Science will not be close anymore after this historic moment, and that was only possible because of a eminent person who came up with this brilliant idea, and he was none other than SKB. It is great to be a part of this programme. The students got very much motivated under the presence of our beloved SKB. The students are all now charged up and are ready to walk the path that our beloved sir shown us and nothing seems to be possible in the course of Science.

At last the wait is over!!! The students arrived VYK with face full of smiles and excitement.. They met their team members. They were much more excited by the surprise gifts..

In this Pleasant morning, the OSDD c2d programme started off with a welcome by ZT and the students are awaiting the most awaited moment, the Speech of the Minister of Science and Technology Dr.Prithviraj Chavan. SKB introduced the chief guest to the gathering.

Yesterday was another day of curation work. Filtering all the wrong entries was a troubling experience but we were happy about the quality of the entries that we have achieved. Though it was a long serious day, we had some laughs too. Chotu declared that he had 7 hours of sleep (which made the other members mad, as they had less than 5 hours of sleep) but added after a pause that it was for the last 3 days together, which made the team roar with laughter. Its proud to say that Chotu Lumbu has polished his linguistic skills that he is almost a tamilian in his talk (But he is from Delhi). Ubuntu also tried her speech in Hindi, only to say Bhoot (Ghost) instead of Bhookh (Hunger). We tried some telugu, kashmiri and bengali too. The day was filled with Krazzy activities, with everyone laughing at each other (there were LOTS of reasons for us to laugh). We were tweeting all the day, with some new designations (Eg. Moderator turned to Room keeper when she was trying to change the temp. of Air Conditioner and being the door-man(woman). She was also bugging the bugger bhaiya toooo much.) We even discovered that Bugger Baiya has a good talent of story telling which we enjoyed late at night. With the last day of curation work to look forward, we went to sleep.

Today, it was a lazy start (being the last day of work). We completed our curation work, had some snaps together. But altogether it was a fast day that we had to rush through. Our friends have already arrived and Bugger Baiya was having constant calls which made all of us to look forward to meet our friends!!!

Fishing to Super-Computing

With a bright sunshine, we (TBGO team) took off a good start to another day of curation work. Though a regular day, it was filled with knowledge, wisdom, fun and frolic. Chotu Lumbu's crazy heights (especially at night), the Moderator's unsuccessful attempts of peace-making, SS's constant curation, Sleeper Deeper's snore filled work, the Hunger (Bugger Bhaiya) happy-GO-lucky work, Dancing Sangeetha and Rajeshwari's moves, the Coffee Freak (Ubuntu, taking two coffee cups at a time) really freaked out. The Hanger, were some of the day's fun moments. The Moderator took on the job of moderating the AC temperature control as well! The Silent Keepers (Sangeetha and Rajeshwari) were amazingly stay-put @ the silent zone.

We did some very very serious work as well!!! Rajender introduced us to his Zebra fishes (Fishes know him better than anyone). We even asked them (fishes) to eat well and drink lots of water. We got trapped at the Orbitrap Mass Spec room for a loooooong session (Anyway we learnt a lot from Rhishi). The buzzing sound of the printer confused us with the MassSpec (& also broke Ubuntu's sleep). Solexa Man (Ashok) explained about Solexa (The famous genome sequence analyser) and we were confused who was solexa, the Man or the machine?!! We had a session with Pandey ji and his TB (terabytes) supercomputers.

We spoke to SKB via Skype. He enquired about our work and our stay here at NDelhi. He encouraged us to keep up this good work.

After the hard work, we went to our welcoming bed at night only to dream about our GOids and literature papers!!!!

BIG network

The IPW Team is eagerly waiting for the BIG network of metabolic reactions which is being generated by Cell Designer at NIPER, Mohali. Anup, a core member of the IPW Team, is working online, with Kaveri, from NIPER and closely following this job which will finish in a couple of hours.

Anupam and Ahalyaa are working really hard to reach their targets for today. Aparna and Vijaychitra are focusing on some of the difficult to annotate proteins in their set, whereas Kausik works ONLY with difficult to annotate proteins. Another interesting Group is Akanksha and Prabhakar, trying their level best to understand PPEs and lipoproteins :)

Rohit is busy making presentations and having serious discussions with Anu, who has joined us from NCL yesterday. We also have with us Samik and Yukiko from SBI and they are really excited to meet the Team. Yasha and Gayathri from Group 4 are really exhausted with too many hypothetical proteins to annotate!! And finally there is Ashwini and Priti who sit quietly during the sessions to surprise the Team with a huge number of proteins that they annotate every hour!!

IPW is all about team work and the Team is on the lawn for the evening play session......more to come after this break!

Crazy "GO"ing !!!!!

Yet another Day..........So many curations left!!!!!!!

But hey guys....we won't let the day go just like that.........

With all the doubts (with lots of arguements and fighting: Dipon and Deepa) being cleared among the team leaders and lots of entries in the final sheet, TBGO has gone off to a flying start. Converting electronic annotations to manuel literature, formating the entries, drinking coffee and tea in between, discussions with VS, planning the work with Deeksha and Saakshi, made up most of the day. But hey, we did have some fun doubled with the added members Sangeetha and Rajeshwari.

Bored??? Bugger Bhaiya (DiponLOVE: he wants this in red... his fav colour..... but guys red is for wrong annotations and how come your whole sheet is red?????????????) will entertain us with his wit! Scribling on the white board, waiting for the hanger ubuntu to hang (so we can crack some jokes), calling each others by funny pet names, were some of our pass times. The Moderator (Sham) became the moderator between The Hanger (DiponLOVE) and Sleeper Deeper (Deepa), who finds the biggest challenge is to keep the air around them calm! Chotu Lambu (Vivek - Youngest and tallest), who unfortunately doesn't like his most dearest name, laughs like a mad man whenever he is curating his entries. His madness was at its highest, especially when he started banging his head and swirling in his chair :D :D Silent Suresh (SS) is the most silent worker of this group. Peacemaker Karthi is the right hand of Bugger Bhaiya. (Bhaiya has a left hand vacancy. Lets inform VS!) Ubuntu Chris is the proudest of all cause everyone loves to use ubuntu (:Ubuntu herself) which everyone find it difficult to use (: Dipon), as it gets hanged. Chris the Great Ubuntu resolves the problem of others with her great ubuntu features and accesories. The newcomers are trying to maintain their silent image (which is really hard to keep up with the rest!!!!). We have yet another member... Yipppyyyyyyyyy none another than JADU (Ubuntu Chris)... Our own JADU from KOI MIL GAYA.... Hey aliens are also GOing.!!!! (special request from Moderator: No Red) So GOing!!!!

Happy GOing.......

P.S.: Nicknames are patented to TBGO. Copying is strictly prohibited. Terms and Conditions applied.

The Last Mile

IPW Team is pushing hard to finish the last mile of data QC before coming to the on-site phase at Teen Murti. The Team at this hour (11:14 pm) is sitting in the lounge of the Guest house concentrating on the task. They have shown unending commitment to finish this humongous task in such a small period of time!!!

But this is not all... The Team is very active when it comes to play sessions too!!! They take a 20 mins break every evening in the lawns of HRDC, playing and having fun.

As most of the selected C2D members have boarded their trains, the eagerness to meet the Virtual Team is getting more intense.

Cheers to all the members who have made C2d possible!!!!