Computer-Aided Drug Design Introduction

DRUG DISCOVERY TODAY

Resource Speaker:Junie B. Billiones, Ph.D.

October 09, 20146:00-7:00 PM

University of the Philippines ManilaCollege of Medicine & College of Arts and Sciences

Master of Science in Health Informatics

Fighting TB with Technology

Bioinformatics

• an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data

• study of information content and information flow in biological systems and processes

• the science of organizing and analyzing biological data

Applications of Bioinformatics

• Gene Prediction• Structure Prediction• Expression Analysis

• Drug Discovery• Compound Screening

Junie B. Billones, Ph. D.

• Ph.D. in Chemistry• Associate Professor of Chemistry in DPSM, UP Manila• Assistant Director of National Institutes of Health

Publications:- Towards Antituberculosis Drugs: Molecular Docking of

Curcumin and its Analogues to Pantothenate Synthetase- Virtual Screening against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Lipoate Protein Ligase B (MtbLipB) and In Silico ADMET Evaluation of Top Hits