3 DAY WORKSHOP ON DRUG DISCOVERY TECHNOLOGY:
UNCOVERING THE METHODS IN NEPAL

Biotechnology Society of Nepal(BSN) in collaboration with BioDiscovery Group Solutions for Future, India (https://www.facebook.com/biodiscovery) will conduct 3 day workshop on Drug Discovery & Designing from 26-28 July 2013 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

FEE:
40 US $ for valid BSN Members.
40 US $ for Students coming in Group of 10.
45 US $ for Students coming in Group of 5.
50 US $ for Students coming alone as individual.
70 US $ for Faculties/Teachers/Company Employees/ Professionals

LUNCH: FREE FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS FOR 3 DAYS
LAST DATE OF REGISTRATION: 30 JUNE 2013

After this date the fee increases to 5 US $ for above mentioned categories.
Onsite registration: 100 US $ for all

TOPICS
The topics which will be covered in 3 day workshop include:
Introduction of Drug Designing
Science involved in disease target identification
Virtual screening

Apart from above elementary topics the training & practical application will be given for following topics:
In-silico generation of ligands
Protein optimization & energy minimization
Molecular Docking
Creation of Grid Paramater & Dock Parameter files.
Running the Docking Algorithm
Selection of potent inhibitors on the basis of binding energies and Lipinski’s Rule of 5
Look for H-bond between ligand and active site of the residue of protein.
Analysis and Evaluation

Practical application will be done on 5-10 molecules and the software on which training will be given:
ChemSketch- Drawing the molecules- In-silico generation of ligands.
Open Babel- Conversion of one file format to other.
MGL Tools- Lamarckian Genetic Algorithm- Docking.
Cygwin- Running the algorithm.
UCSF Chimera- Structure Analysis. H-Bond interaction.
Online software for Drug Likeness & ADMET.

Registration details
For registration send you letter of interest with CV at bioson01@gmail.com or secretary@bsn.org.np
To pay the fee for the workshop contact
BSN Secretary Megh Raj Bhatt at 9849120647 or
BSN office Co-ordinator Bigyan Rimal at 9841782334.