TITLE:

DESIGN OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DATABASES & VIRTUAL SCREENING

DATE:

Friday, October 26th, 2007

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Srinivas Reddy Alla, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, California State University, San Marcos; CA, USA, Molecular Modeling Group, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, INDIA

ABSTRACT:

The approach to understand the chemical and biological problems has taken a
new turn in the post-genomic era, due to the availability of vast amount of
related biological and chemical data. To unravel the useful information
from this data, use of computational techniques in bioinformatics and
chemoinformatics have become an integral part of modern drug discovery,
design, and development. This is especially true for the identification and
validation of drug targets as well as for the screening and design of
potential bioactive substances. The present talk will introduce the
available database design methodologies, and the discussion on the
developed in-house databases Viz. SiRNA (siRNA database for Oncogenes), CAD
(Cation-Aromatic Interaction Database), PLID (Protein Ligand Interaction
Database) Later part of the talk will introduce the virtual screening
approaches available in the drug discovery process.

HOST:

Sunil Kumar

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