The People Behind IndianElucidBiology

This project is built by bioinformaticians, for bioinformaticians — entirely free and open. Every tutorial, every diagram, every line of explanation is written by community members who believe knowledge should be accessible to everyone.

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Meet the Contributors

The humans who write, review, and improve everything you read here.

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Ankush Sharma

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Bioinformatician • Researcher • Educator

RNA-Seq Population Genomics Phylogenetics scRNA-Seq Epigenomics

Founded IndianElucidBiology with a single mission: make high-quality bioinformatics education free for everyone. Has written 35+ tutorials covering the full range of modern computational biology — from RNA-Seq and GWAS to single-cell and spatial omics.

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Contribute to IndianElucidBiology

There are no barriers — you don't need to be a professor or a senior researcher. If you know something and can explain it clearly, you belong here.

Write a Tutorial

Contribute a step-by-step guide on any bioinformatics topic — a tool you use, a method you know well, or a pipeline you've built. Any skill level welcome.

Fix Errors & Review

Found a command that doesn't work? Outdated package version? Wrong flag? Fixing small errors is one of the most valuable contributions you can make.

Share Result Figures

Run one of our pipelines on real data and share your output plots — volcano plots, UMAPs, trees, heatmaps. Seeing real results is incredibly helpful for learners.

Translate Content

Help make tutorials accessible in more languages — Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, or any other language you're fluent in. Bioinformatics education should be borderless.

Ready to contribute?

Reach out directly to Ankush Sharma or introduce yourself in the Discord server. We'll help you get started — no pull request experience required.

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Contributor Guidelines

Use real public datasets

Always use data from NCBI, ENA, GEO, or other public repositories with accession numbers. Readers should be able to reproduce every step exactly.

Explain every command

Don't just paste commands — explain what each flag does, what the output means, and what could go wrong. We write for beginners and experts alike.

Cite your sources

Reference the original tool papers with DOI links. Credit the developers whose work you're teaching.

Keep it free, always

All contributed content is published under the CC BY 4.0 licence — free for anyone to read, share, and build upon with attribution.

What makes a good tutorial
  • A clear biological question — what problem are we solving? Why does this tool/method exist?
  • A public dataset with NCBI/ENA/GEO accession number so readers can download and follow along.
  • Step-by-step commands tested and working on a clean conda environment. Include the exact conda/pip install commands.
  • Expected output — show what the results look like (figures, tables, numbers) so readers know they're on the right track.
  • Common errors section — what goes wrong most often and how to fix it. This is the most searched part of any tutorial.