Kokrajhar: A three-day hands on training workshop on Bioinformatics was successfully conducted by the Bodoland University.
The workshop was organized by Pharmacology and Bioinformatics laboratory of the Department of Zoology of the Bodoland University.
Twenty-four participants undertook the training which included PG students, Research Scholars and teaching faculties.
The training workshop covered various topics, including database access, modeling of protein and structural analysis.
The participants also got lessons on active site study, file formatting of molecules for docking, molecular docking, molecular dynamics study, installation of gromacs, running of MDS, ADMET study, post-MDS analysis, and visualization of MDS output.
Dr. Manjil Basumatary, Academic Registrar of Bodoland University attended the inaugural programme as the chief guest, while Prof. Sujit Deka, the Dean of Science and Technology was the guest of honour.
Dr. Kushal Choudhury, Head of the Department of Zoology was the chairperson of the iaugural programme of the training workshop. Other faculty members of the Zoology Department of Bodoland University also attended the programme.
Dr. Ananta Swargiary, the coordinator and the sole resource person of the training programme, explained the objectives of the workshop.
Dr. Kushal Choudhury spoke about the necessity of more training workshops in the university to fine-tune the skills of the post-graduate students, research scholars and teaching faculties.
Prof. Deka also encouraged the participants to try to attend such training programmes on a regular basis.
Comparing on the line of “geoinformatics”, Dr. Manjil Basumatary opined that bioinformatics also is crucial in biomedical research. He said scholars should learn the technique cautiously as the mistake of the technique might lead to serious issues in drug designing.
Prof. Hilloljyoti Singha of the Department of Zoology narrated his experiences about how dry lab research work could be alternative if there was lack of facility to carry out research in wet lab conditions.
The PhD scholars of the Pharmacology and Bioinformatics laboratory – Mritunjoy Kumar Roy and Manita Daimari took active part in helping the resource person as organizers.
