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  Is organizing 3 Days Hands on Workshop in Chemoinformatics  18 th  November to 20 th  November 2016.  Chemoinformatics is a rapidly developing branch of chemistry. In the coming days the students who have studied Chemoinformatics will be required not only in India but in foreign countries too! The requirement of trained manpower from the discipline such as Chemistry, Biology and Microbiology is the fuel for the growth of Chemoinformatics. The development of Chemoinformatics needs a workforce with a solid background in chemistry and an expertise of the available computer technology. Application of Chemoinformatics is in areas like Agrochemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries, Computational chemistry and library design groups, Chemical software companies, Database developers, Chemical publishers, In-silico Drug Discovery, Toxicity predictions, ADME prediction of Molecules, Chemicals Vendors , R&D, etc Salient Features of the Work...

National Conference-cum-Workshop on "Search for Antimalarials:Mechanism Based Approach" 27th - 29th April, 2012 The workshop will cover the following topics Malaria Genomics/Proteomics Malaria Vaccine Development Current scenario of Malaria Drug Development Drug Target Validation and Proritization Structural Bioinformatcs/chemoinformatics Malaria Drug Target Database Development Target  Based Drug Designing Target-drug interaction mapping 3DQSAR and Pharmacophore Design Antimalarial Database Development All correspondence for the National Conference cum workshop should be addressed to : Dr. Naidu Subbarao School of Computational and Integrative Sciences Hall No. 6, Lecture Hall Complex Jawaharlal Nehru University New JNU Campus, New Delhi 110 067 Email:nsrao@mail.jnu.ac.in / nsrao.jnu@gmail.com Do you wish to know more?

For Indian laboratories, the decision to implement  informatics applications that support compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 delivers multiple benefits. They are protecting their access to regulated markets in the US and other countries while implementing electronic processes and procedures that can reduce costs while enhancing their ability to deliver world class results.

26th- 27th Feb 2011 Workshop groups will study problems with hands-on examples using computational chemistry methods and discuss issues highlighted by examples and Case Studies presented by instructors. A Case Study set with a focus on chemical database creation and filtering drug like compounds will be used to link all workshop activities throughout the workshop. Hands on training on commercial softwares of Drug discovery Application of Chemoinformatics in drug discovery Interaction and guidance from eminent scientist from NCL Training from industry experts from Chemoinformatics domain. Analyzing chemical fingerprint Generating Knowledge from structure and different chemical databases Using various chemical structure drawing and visualization tools Digitizing your chemical Data. Storing molecules in wide array of format Awards for top 3 groups For any queries contact: RASA Life Science Informatics 301, 3rd Floor, Dhanashree Apartment, Opposite Chittaranjan Vatika, ...

The Workshop Drug discovery is an expensive and time taking process and therefore new approaches based on chemoinformatics and bioinformatics are being adopted.The knowledge of the 3D structures of protein targets is now playing a major role at all stages of drug discovery. The distinct nature of biological and chemical information requires the integrated capabilities of both bioinformatics and chemo-informatics to decipher existing and hidden relationships. Bioinformatics and chemo-informatics have largely evolved independently from biology and chemistry. Cheminformatics is an inter-disciplinary subject of storage, processing and retrieval of chemical information. Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics have significantly assisted in lead optimization, fingerprinting, pharmacophore designing, target identification, QSAR and their application can lead to discovery of new molecules. Molecular modeling using 3D graphics and optimization techniques helps the scientists to understand how drug...

CambridgeSoft's Business Partner in Hyderabad, India is hiring for multiple positions. Appropriate candidates, with a chemistry or biochemistry background, could apply. The following is a list of available positions: Lead Developer - ChemDraw product on a Java platform (Hyderabad, India) Developer - JAVA DEVELOPERS (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Desktop - ChemBio3D (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Enterprise - Network Communication and Distributed Computing (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Desktop - User Interface (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Desktop - Numerical Methods (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise - Inventory (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Enterprise - (C++) (Hyderabad India) Developer - Enterprise - E-Notebook Support Analyst (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Desktop - ChemDraw (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise - E-Notebook (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Enterprise - Database Specialist (...

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CambridgeSoft's Business Partner in Kochi, India is hiring for multiple positions. The following is a list of available positions: Lead Developer - Desktop - ChemBio3D (Kochi, India) Developer - Enterprise - Network Communication and Distributed Computing (Kochi, India) Developer - Desktop - User Interface (Kochi, India) Developer - Desktop - Numerical Methods (Kochi, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise - Inventory (Kochi, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise (Kochi, India) Developer - Enterprise - (C++) (Kochi India) Developer - Enterprise - E-Notebook Support Analyst (Kochi, India) Developer - Desktop - ChemDraw (Kochi, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise - E-Notebook (Kochi, India) Developer - Enterprise - Database Specialist (Kochi India) Developer - Desktop – Core Chemistry Team (Kochi India) Developer - Desktop - Chemical Database (Kochi, India) All positions in Kochi, India are full time with our business partner. Details can be found online at: h...

Accelrys ACD/Labs (Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.) Afferent Systems Inc. Agilent Technologies Aureus Pharma Barnard Chemical Information Ltd. (John Barnard and Geoff Downs) SEE: digital chemistry Bio-Rad Laboratories BioReason BioSolveIT BlueObelisk.org Bruker Daltonics Inc. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre CambridgeSoft Corporation CARB Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (NIST/University of Maryland) Cengent Therapeutics (Genes to Leads). Acquired by Inncardio, Inc. Center for Molecular Modeling (NIH) Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics CMBI (formerly: CAOS/CAMM: Dutch National Center for Computer-Assisted Chemistry and Molecular Modelling) Cerep ChemAxon ChemDiv, Inc. (Chemical Diversity) Chemical Abstracts Service Chemical Computing Group, Inc. Chemical Simulations Group ChemInnovation Software ChemNavigator ChemSW (Chemistry Software for Windows, formerly: WindowChem) Chenomx Inc. CIS Chemical Information System CombiChem.net CompuChem C...

Heart attacks are commonly caused by blood clots formed of blood platelets. A new research suggests that it should be possible to create a clot-busting pill that targets a receptor on the blood cells’ surface, something that high-risk patients could take at the first sign of chest pain. The key to such a pill is according to the research findings a receptor called αIIbβ3 on the platelets’ surface that is intimately involved in the aggregation process. Interfering with αIIbβ3 can prevent an unwanted thrombus and the three αIIbβ3 inhibitors currently on the market can do just that. But they also have side effects and risks and must be administered intravenously. Researchers at Rockefeller University have found a new molecule, called RUC-1 , that not only appears to sidestep these problems but, unlike existing drugs, could be taken orally.

A leading provider of software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced that the pharmacokinetics , dynamics, and metabolism science board at a top three pharmaceutical company named its software an "application of choice." As pharmaceutical companies face a significant number of patent expirations in the near future, there is a need to become more aggressive in research and development to fill the pipeline, sometimes with reduced R&D staff. Productivity tools in the field of pharmacokinectics , ADMET , chemical data visualization and analysis , etc. that leverage the expertise of the industry's scientific teams. It is believed that the difficulties facing some parts of the pharmaceutical industry will result in greater use of such tools as managers realize that the savings in time and money that can be achieved through their application vastly exceeds the cost of obtaining and learning to use them.

What is this? is this a new industry? or a old wine in a new bottle? may be the later is true, bioinformatics is more popularly known by this name in the industry circle these days! Well Life Sciences and Informatics can be any thing form anything form computational biology, all omes and omics, core bioinformatics to curation and literature mining , database creation, in the area of biology, chemistry , bio-chem space. Cheminformatics , insilico chemistry and insilico biology how best to describe the host of activities involved that companies do to serve their clients and earn revenues for their firms... There are number of companies in India and bangalore is the forefront as a major bio-cluster with 20 to 30 companies operation in this sphere. there are companies with the sole focus as informatics as business to name a few : Molecular Connections Pvt. Ltd. Jubilant Biosys Strand Life Sciences Ocimumbio (hyderbad) While IT companies which are also in to Life Sciences as one of thei...