V.S. Ramachandran

Prof. v. Ramachandran

Dr. Ramachandran was born on 6th June 193 7. He had his medical education at Madras Medical College andpost graduate training (D.P.M. andM.D.) in Psychiatry atNIMHANS, Bangalore. He was awardedPfuD by the University of Madras and Fellowship by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, U.K. He was Consultant Psychiatrist at Institute of Mental Health and Additional Professor of Psychiatry at Madras Me...

Ramachandran plot on the web

A graphics package has been developed to display the main chain torsion angles phi, psi (phi, Psi); (Ramachandran angles) in a protein of known structure. In addition, the package calculates the Ramachandran angles at the central residue in the stretch of three amino acids having specified the flanking residue types. The package displays the Ramachandran angles along with a detailed analysis ou...

Half a century of Ramachandran plots.

On the occasion of their fiftieth birthday, it is opportune to review the first half century of Ramachandran plots. In the present review, some of the most relevant aspects of this fifty-year history are summarized, from the original ideas of Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran to subsequent revisions and to applications in structural biology. This will not be a guided walk through five decade...

Remembrances of Professor G . N . Ramachandran

Nakayama , Shimojo , and Ramachandran ' s 1990 paper

Surfaces revisited The target paper reviewed in this article was titled `̀ Transparency: relation to depth, subjective contours, luminance, and neon colour spreading'' coauthored by K Nakayama, S Shimojo, and V S Ramachandran, published in 1990. This paper, one of the first in a series on surface perception, examined how in untextured stereograms, local disparity and luminance contrast can drast...