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
> ======================================================
> # Dr G P S Raghava (FASc, FNASc), Head Bioinformatics Centre #
> # Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector-39A, Chandigarh, India #
> # Phone: +91-172-2690557, Fax: +91-172-2690632
> #
> # Eadd: http://www.imtech.res.in/raghava/ragh... from imtech.res.in #
> #=====================================================
>> _______________________________________________
> Comp-bio mailing list
>Comp-bio from net.bio.net>http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/comp-bio>