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[Computational-biology] Server for Predicting Inhibitors against Bacteria

jitesh dundas via comp-bio%40net.bio.net (by jbdundas from gmail.com)
Thu Mar 11 16:16:07 EST 2010


Raghava Sir,

Congratulations on your new paper.

You habe always been a leader in this field.

Regards,
Jitesh Dundas

On 3/12/10, Raghava <raghavagps from gmail.com> wrote:
> We are please to announce a server KiDoQ ( http://crdd.osdd.net/raghava/
> ) developed by our group for predicting inhibitors against
> Dihydrodipicolinate synthase (DHDPS).  Enzyme DHDPS is a potential
> drug target  found in  a unique  DAP/Lysine pathway of bacteria. This
> server allows users to design and predict inhibitors against bacteria
> (DHDPS). In this server docking energies are used as descriptors for
> developing QSAR model. For detail about server see following
> reference
> Garg, A., Tewari, R. and Raghava, G. P. S. (2010) KiDoQ: using
> docking
> based energy scores to develop ligand based model for predicting
> antibacterials. BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:125 . (
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/125/ )
> Best of our knowledge this is first web server which allow to predict
> inhibitors against bacterial targets and will be useful in designing
> drugs against bacterial infection. In chemoinformatics or
> pharmacoinformatics  its difficult to develop open source software/
> webserver as this field is controlled by commercial houses. One the
> reason is that descriptor calculation programs are not available
> free. We hope in future more and more open source software/webservers
> will be developed by community. This work is part of OSDD (
> http://crdd.osdd.net/
> http://www.osdd.net/) initiated by CSIR, India, to promote better
> health for public.
> We wish to listen your comment on this type of work and your
> suggestions to promote open source for drug discovery.
> With Regards
>  .
> Raghava
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> # Dr G P S Raghava (FASc, FNASc), Head Bioinformatics Centre   #
> # Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India  #
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