Chathurani Ranathunge

Hi! My name is Chathurani Ranathunge. I am a bioinformatics scientist with over a decade of experience in working with multiple types of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. I was once a wet lab scientist and my journey into bioinformatics started when I fell in love with the puzzle-solving nature of analyzing biological data. I’m passionate about turning biological data into meaningful insights that can drive research forward.

news

Aug 03, 2024	The final chapter of my dissertation is now published in Biomolecules! Read the paper here.
May 15, 2024	Excited to share that I’ve started a new role as a Lead Bioinformatics Scientist @ the UH Sequencing Core!
Jul 31, 2023	promor v0.2.1 is now available on CRAN! Check it out.

selected publications

Transcriptome profiles of sunflower reveal the potential role of microsatellites in gene expression divergence

Chathurani Ranathunge, Gregory L Wheeler, Melody E Chimahusky, and 5 more authors

Molecular Ecology, 2018

DOI Bib

@article{ranathunge2018transcriptome,
  title = {Transcriptome profiles of sunflower reveal the potential role of microsatellites in gene expression divergence},
  author = {Ranathunge, Chathurani and Wheeler, Gregory L and Chimahusky, Melody E and Kennedy, Meaghan M and Morrison, Jesse I and Baldwin, Brian S and Perkins, Andy D and Welch, Mark E},
  journal = {Molecular Ecology},
  volume = {27},
  number = {5},
  pages = {1188--1199},
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1111/mec.14522},
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Transcribed microsatellite allele lengths are often correlated with gene expression in natural sunflower populations

Chathurani Ranathunge, Gregory L Wheeler, Melody E Chimahusky, and 3 more authors

Molecular Ecology, 2020

DOI Bib

@article{ranathunge2020transcribed,
  title = {Transcribed microsatellite allele lengths are often correlated with gene expression in natural sunflower populations},
  author = {Ranathunge, Chathurani and Wheeler, Gregory L and Chimahusky, Melody E and Perkins, Andy D and Pramod, Sreepriya and Welch, Mark E},
  journal = {Molecular Ecology},
  volume = {29},
  number = {9},
  pages = {1704--1716},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  doi = {10.1111/mec.15440},
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}

promor: a comprehensive R package for label-free proteomics data analysis and predictive modeling

Chathurani Ranathunge, Sagar S Patel, Lubna Pinky, and 6 more authors

Bioinformatics Advances, 2023

DOI Bib

@article{ranathunge2023promor,
  title = {promor: a comprehensive R package for label-free proteomics data analysis and predictive modeling},
  author = {Ranathunge, Chathurani and Patel, Sagar S and Pinky, Lubna and Correll, Vanessa L and Chen, Shimin and Semmes, O John and Armstrong, Robert K and Combs, C Donald and Nyalwidhe, Julius O},
  journal = {Bioinformatics Advances},
  volume = {3},
  number = {1},
  pages = {vbad025},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press},
  doi = {10.1093/bioadv/vbad025},
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}