Pulmonomics: Omics Approaches for Understanding Pulmonary Diseases

Chapter 1_Introduction to Pulmonary Diseases and OMICS approaches.- Chapter 2_Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases.- Chapter 3_COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonar Diseases).- Chapter 4_ Asthma.- Chapter 5_Other obstructive airway diseases like Bronchiectases, Focal airway narrowing.- Chapter 6_Restrictive Pulmonary Diseases (Common qualities and features with examples).- Chapter 7_Interstitial Pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).- Chapter 8_Sarcoidosis.- Chapter 9_ Other restrictive airway diseases like pneumonitis, pleural thickening.- Chapter 10_Vascular Diseases.- Chapter 11_Pulmonary hypertension.- Chapter 12_Pulmonary edema.- Chapter 13_ Other vascular diseases like Pulmonary Edema, Cor Pulmonale.- Chapter 14_Infectious Diseases.- Chapter 15_Tuberculosis.- Chapter 16_Cystic fibrosis.- Chapter 17_Pneumonia, COVID-19 and others.- Chapter 18_Neoplastic Diseases/Lung Cancer.

Dr. Sudipto Saha is an Associate Professor at the Division of Bioinformatics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. He joined Bose Institute as a DBT-Ramalingaswami fellow in 2012. He has earlier worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Indiana University, School of Informatics, Indianapolis, USA (2007-2008) and at Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, USA (2008-20012). He did his Ph.D. (Bioinformatics) in 2007 from Jawaharlal Nehru University (work done at CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh). His research interests are in pulmonary diseases like asthma/COPD and tuberculosis, and has a specialization in bioinformatics and OMICS data analysis. He has more than 22 years of research experience in Immunoinformatics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, and Machine Learning Techniques. He has published more than 85 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and authored several book chapters.

Dr. Sreyashi Majumdar has obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India (2022). She pursued her PhD research at Bioinformatics Centre, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India under the guidance of Dr. Sudipto Saha. Her research interest encompasses the systemic discovery of asthma biomarkers for therapeutics. She has published several research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and has also authored a book chapter. She has several awards accredited to her. Dr. Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya did his post-doctoral fellowship in pulmonary medicine from PGIMER, Chandigarh and presently working as the lead pulmonologist attached to the Institute of Pulmocare and Research, Kolkata, India. He has been engaged to serve the motto of the institute as research, education, and patient care for over two decades. He keeps a keen interest in research, teaching, and innovative work. He has published more than 75 research articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals