Department of Pharmacoinformatics

National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S. A. S. Nagar

Pharmacoinformatics

National Centre for Pharmacoinformatics was established in the year 2003 & upgraded to Department of
Pharmacoinformatics in 2010; with the objectives of teaching the science and art of “New Millennium Drug
Discovery” for expedite drug development; to integrate the modern information technology to core science of
drug discovery and development by exploiting the advantages of the modern fields like bioinformatics,
chemoinformatics, toxicoinformatics, pharmacy informatics, clinical informatics, etc. This course offers a
unique blend of modern information technology and pharmaceutical sciences to the students. The graduates
of this course are experts in information technology with pharmacy background.

Courses Offered
M. S. (Pharm.) Pharmacoinformatics:
2 Years Masters program with one year of academic research project.
Topics Covered:
 Information and Information Technology  Basics of Drug Action
 Dosage Form Design Parameters  Biostatistics
 Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics  Spectral Analysis
 Genomics, Proteomics and System Biology  Molecular Biology
 Structure and Function of Biomolecules  Bioinformatics
 Pharmacological Screening and Assays  Drug Designing
 Pharmacoinformatics – The Tools  Pharmacy Informatics
 Pharmacoinformatics – The Methodology  Intellectual Property Rights
 Drug Metabolism and Toxicity and Metabolic Disorders
Ph. D. Program
Areas of research:
Application of Information Technology in the following areas of drug discoveries:

Anti- Anti- Anti- Anti- Protein Ion Channels &

Diabetes Alzheimer’s Tubercular Leishmaniasis Function Prediction GPCRs

Metabolism
Anti Malaria Drug Delivery Anti-Influenza p38 MAP Kinase Adrenoreceptors
Prediction
 Resources at the Department

Faculty
No. of Publications
Prof. P. V. Bharatam, FRSC In-charge 120
Dr. C. G. Mohan Assistant Professor 38
Dr. M. E. Sobhia Assistant Professor 35
Dr. A. T. Sangamwar Assistant Professor 5

Students
Masters:
7th Batch (2009-11): 18 Graduating in June 2011
8 Batch (2010-12):
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28
Ph.D.s: 9

Hardware Availability
HP clusters with 296 Cores IBM Cluster with 120 Cores Silicon Graphics Tezro
5 Silicon Graphics Fuel 2 Sun Microsystems workstations Fujitsu workstation
Sun fire F2100 server with 10 CPU Silicon Graphics Octane PC Density/ Student: 1.2

Software Availability
Bioinformatics Quantum Chemistry Database Management Molecular Modeling
GCG Gaussian03 ORACLE Clinical MOE
SPARTAN SAS
Bioedit SYBYL
Biosuite Toxicity Prediction Molecular Dynamics ChemOffice
EMBOSS TOPKAT AMBER Schrödinger
GenMAPP DEREK GROMACS Accelerys Discovery Studio

Our contributions
Dendrimer Building Tool
Intrinsic Metabolic Profile Analyzer
Q-SAR: QSAR Software
More than 25 Pharmacophore Models
More than 15 QSAR Models
More than 15 Homology Models
Anti Diabetic Agents 3D Structural Library
Anti Malarial Agents 3D Structural Library
CYP metabolizing Drugs 3D Structural Library
Leishbase (http://www.databases.niper.ac.in/LeishBase/)
CODAFT(http://www.databases.niper.ac.in/codaft/)

Our Past Recruiters

Biocon Smart Analyst Micro-labs Limited Connexios Life Sciences
Promed Jubilant Biosys Strand Life Sciences Nycomed Pharma Pvt. Ltd.
Novartis V Life Sciences Kendle India Pvt. Ltd. Indegene Lifesystems Pvt. Ltd.
WNS Ltd. Nicholas Piramal Torrent Research Centre Cognizant Technology Services
DMV Solutions Procter & Gamble Ranbaxy Research Laboratories And Many more…

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