Krishnendu pursued his bachelors in Zoology from the Presidency College, Kolkata, his masters from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, and his PhD from the Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Zoology, Jhargram Raj College, Jhargram since 2015. He is fascinated with evolution and Python programming and is currently working in the field of computational molecular evolution. He is also actively involved in teaching bioinformatics and programming. Krishnendu strongly believes bioinformatics and computational biology should be a major part of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. He also feels biology students and researchers must be familiar with programming because the basic understanding of programming is becoming increasingly necessary to understand modern biology. T