Rashedul Islam, Rajan Saha Raju, Nazia Tasnim, Istiak Hossain Shihab et al.
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global pandemic following its initial emergence in China. SARS-CoV-2 has a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus genome of around 30Kb. Using next-generation seque...
Rajan Saha Raju, Abdullah Al Nahid, Preonath Chondrow Dev, Rashedul Islam
Classification of viruses into their taxonomic ranks (e.g., order, family, and genus) provides a framework to organize an abundant population of viruses. Next-generation metagenomic sequencing technologies lead to a rapid increase in generating sequencing data of viruses which require bioinformatics...
Rajan Saha Raju, Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee, Arif Ahmad, Mohammad Shahidur Rahman
We present a Deep Neural Network (DNN) based statistical parametric Text-to-Speech (TTS) system for Bangla (also known as Bengali). A first step in building a DNN-based TTS system is having large speech data. Since good speech dataset for Bangla TTS is not available publicly, we created our own data...
Yogesh Hooda, Shuborno Islam, Rathin Kabiraj, Hafizur Rahman et al.
Typhoid-conjugate vaccines (TCVs) provide an opportunity to reduce the burden of typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, in endemic areas. As policymakers design vaccination strategies, accurate and high-resolution data on disease burden is crucial. However, traditional blood culture-based survei...
Reem Alotaibi, Madini O. Alassafi, Md. Saiful Islam Bhuiyan, Rajan Saha Raju et al.
Blockchain with its numerous advantages is often considered a foundational technology with the potential to revolutionize a wide range of application domains, including enterprise applications. These enterprise applications must meet several important criteria, including scalability, performance, an...
Yogesh Hooda, Shuborno Islam, Rathin Kabiraj, Hafizur Rahman et al.
ABSTRACT Typhoid-conjugate vaccines (TCVs) provide an opportunity to reduce the burden of typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, in endemic areas. As policymakers design vaccination strategies, accurate and high-resolution data on disease burden is crucial. However, traditional blood culture-bas...
Rajan Saha Raju, Abdullah Al Nahid, Preonath Shuvo, Rashedul Islam
Abstract Taxonomic classification of viruses is a multi-class hierarchical classification problem, as taxonomic ranks (e.g., order, family and genus) of viruses are hierarchically structured and have multiple classes in each rank. Classification of biological sequences which are hierarchically struc...
Rashedul Islam, Rajan Saha Raju, Nazia Tasnim, Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab et al.
Abstract Background Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a global pandemic following its initial emergence in China. Using next-generation sequencing technologies, a large number of SARS-CoV-2 genomes are being sequenc...
Rajan Saha Raju, Arif Ahmad, Mohammad Shahidur Rahman
Text normalization (TN), the process of converting non-standard words into their spoken equivalents, is a fundamental pre-processing step for text-to-speech (TTS) systems. While substantial progress has been made in TN for well-resource languages, low-resource languages such as Bangla have received ...
Rajan Saha Raju, Rashedul Islam
Abstract Among the various approaches for representing protein sequences as vectors, embeddings derived from protein language models (PLMs) have been empirically shown to enhance accuracy in downstream bioinformatics tasks. However, the substantial computational demands of PLMs, both during training...
Prithwiraj Bhattacharjee, Rajan Saha Raju, Arif Ahmad, Mohammad Shahidur Rahman
Text-to-Speech (TTS) system is a system where speech is synthesized from a given text following any particular approach. Concatenative synthesis, Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based synthesis, Deep Learning (DL) based synthesis with multiple building blocks, etc. are the main approaches for implementing...