Computer-Aided Drug Design Introduction

4. 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

5. Applications of Bioinformatics
• Gene Prediction
• Structure Prediction
• Expression Analysis
• Drug Discovery
• Compound Screening

6. 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