Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite (MPDS)

Write and Share!

Community Lead Knowledge Creation and Sharing.

Academicians should actively engage in writing computer programs and codes and make them freely available, so that they can be accessed, modified and improved for optimal utilization across the globe (save the time of other academicians by precluding repetition). Open innovation is the key for creating knowledge society.

“An attempt towards strengthening drug discovery research and also inculcating the spirit of developing software/databases for scientific problems in general, drug discovery in particular”

In my opinion, overdependence on software packages is a major problem confronting the academic community. While the cost of the commercial software packages are outside the affordable range for most academic institutes, usage of software without access to source code, leads to employing these software as a black box and it will have a severe limitations in pedagogy. Our quest is to develop the open-source drug discovery platform for drug discovery, mainly with a focus on writing software to CADD. In this regard, we have put our effort to make our own platform for computational drug discovery that is essential for self-reliance. Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite (MPDS) is a Galaxy based open-source indigenous drug discovery and development platform (https://mpds.neist.res.in).