       
 Unit of Computer-Aided Molecular “Biosilico” Discovery and
Bioinformatic Research (CAMD-BIR Unit)
ABOUT US
CAMD-BIR
Unit provides
an informatics infrastructure to the chemical, biotechnology and
pharmaceutical investigations. Our research group’s suite of Chem-Bio-Informatics
applications covers many different areas using modern methods of
molecular (drug) design. The research is devoted to the development
of novel computational methods, to handling of chemical information,
to database mining for hit and lead structure search, to the
generation of pharmacophore models for the design of new bio-active
compounds. Some in-house software systems also addressing the needs
of today's research disciplines including QSAR/QSPR studies, protein
modeling, structure and ligand-based design, high throughput
discovery, molecular modeling and simulations,Virtual
Molecular Screening (mining HTS and eHTS data for compound
selection).
Currently, one of
CAMD-BIR Unit core strength is the definition of new molecular
and macromolecular descriptors and the biosilico discovery of
novel chemical entities (NCE) as well as early pharmacokinetics (ADME),
PhysChem and toxicity prediction.
In addition, CAMD-BIR Unit is leveraging its know-how and
proprietary technology to expand its research activities in the area
of docking and scoring functions (mainly
new structure-based drug design approaches), protein
homology, Protein-protein interactions, computer-aided synthesis
design, planning of organic reactions, synthesis driven
combinatorial library design and prediction of synthetic
accessibility of compounds. The research group offers its products
and services to several investigation team, departments and
companies worldwide.
The key aim
of the CAMD-BIR Unit is the development and application of
integrative Chem-bio-informatics methods to support this wet-dry
cycle, and combined bioinformatics and chemo-informatics methods to
support modern drug discovery.
CAMD-BIR Unit
was founded by Prof. Dr. Yovani Marrero Ponce as a spin-off
of the Department of Pharmacy (Faculty of Chemistry & Pharmacy) at
the Central University of Las Villas (UCLV). |
