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I am trained as a computational medicinal chemist and have command over computational based drug design techniques. My research Interest are: Design of new drug molecules using computer aided modelling techniquesModelling of small organic molecules, proteins, and protein-ligand interactionsLigand based and structure based pharmacophore design and QSAR analysisThese research involves the application and development of all aspects of medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, molecular modeling, computational chemistry, computer-aided drug design, virtual screening , virtual combinatorial library design using pharmacophore approaches, protein structure prediction.I have worked on following Molecular Modeling Tools: Docking Programs: GOLD, MOE, AutoDock,Accelyrs, Pharmacophore based tools: LigandScout, Visualization Programs: VMD, Chimera and Ligplot.QSAR: MOESpecialties:Pharmacophore based drug designingEvaluation and validation of several docking and scoring toolsPharmacophore ModelingVirtual ScreeningQSAR

Listed skills include Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Organic Synthesis, Medicinal Chemistry, and 14 others.