2-day workshop on molecular modelling

Tribune News Service

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Bathinda, March 3

A two-day workshop on ‘Molecular modelling and bioinformatics’ commenced at Central University of Punjab (CUP) here on Tuesday. The workshop was organised by the CUP Department of Computational Sciences Workshop under the patronage of Vice-Chancellor Prof RK Kohli.

The objective of the workshop is to develop skills in molecular dynamics, NGS analysis, and structural and comparative analysis. Dean of Academic Affairs Prof P Ramarao presided over the inaugural session of the programme. Prof VK Garg, Dean Student Welfare, and Kanwal Pal Singh Mundra, CUPB Registrar, were the special guests. Students of various departments of the university participated in the two-day workshop.

The event was inaugurated by Prof Ramarao, Prof Garg, and Mundra. In his welcome address, Prof Ramarao shared the history of inception of the Department of Computational Sciences, and highlighted the present research infrastructure facilities at the department. He said the department had recently established a GPU based High-Performance Computing Lab (HPC Lab) which was providing 450 Tflops Tensor performance for artificial intelligence-based work.

Dean of Student Welfare Prof VK Garg shared departmental achievements and students’ success. He said the department was running three MSc programmes, i.e. computational chemistry, computational life sciences (bioinformatics) and computational physics, and one PhD programme.

Post the inaugural session, Dr Kousik Giri gave a lecture on “Chemistry using computer as test tube”. He also provided hands-on training at HPC Lab. Dr Sudip Chakraborty, Head of the Department, introduced the participants to the ‘Magic of Molecular Dynamics’. He said the students from the Department of Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Chemical Sciences, and Pharmaceutical Sciences would be benefited from the workshop, as molecular modelling and bioinformatics can play a vital role in computational chemistry, drug design, computational biology and material science.