Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsIn a path-breaking development in the field of medical research and drug designing, the virtual designing of molecules against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis has been successfully completed in the Department of Cheminformatics of the Malabar Christian College (MCC) in Kozhikode. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacterial species, which is the causative agent of most cases of Tuberculosis(TB).The project is aimed at building computational models for TB drug discovery. It is part of the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative led by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) which is a ‘translational platform for drug discovery, bringing together informaticians, wet lab scientists, contract research organisations, clinicians, hospitals and others who are willing to adhere to the affordable healthcare philosophy.’ Says Prof U C A Jaleel of MCC Cheminformatics Centre and the principal investigator for the OSDD Cheminformatics group, “the designs are already published in OSDD and it will be officially uploaded within a month. It is a positive development in the discovery of lead molecules for the drug resistance against M Tuberculosis. We formulated a new methodology to discover new scaffold, which can formulate too many molecules.” Jaleel has led the project with the help of open source software, linked to the Garuda series of super computers based in Bangalore and Pune, with the mass participation of about 75 research scholars. first published:August 13, 2012, 10:37 ISTlast updated:August 13, 2012, 10:37 IST
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In a path-breaking development in the field of medical research and drug designing, the virtual designing of molecules against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis has been successfully completed in the Department of Cheminformatics of the Malabar Christian College (MCC) in Kozhikode. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is a pathogenic bacterial species, which is the causative agent of most cases of Tuberculosis(TB).
The project is aimed at building computational models for TB drug discovery. It is part of the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) initiative led by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) which is a ‘translational platform for drug discovery, bringing together informaticians, wet lab scientists, contract research organisations, clinicians, hospitals and others who are willing to adhere to the affordable healthcare philosophy.’ Says Prof U C A Jaleel of MCC Cheminformatics Centre and the principal investigator for the OSDD Cheminformatics group, “the designs are already published in OSDD and it will be officially uploaded within a month. It is a positive development in the discovery of lead molecules for the drug resistance against M Tuberculosis. We formulated a new methodology to discover new scaffold, which can formulate too many molecules.” Jaleel has led the project with the help of open source software, linked to the Garuda series of super computers based in Bangalore and Pune, with the mass participation of about 75 research scholars.
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