title: Design and Development of ChemInfoCloud: An Integrated Cloud Enabled Platform for Virtual Screening.
abstract: The power of cloud computing and distributed computing has been harnessed to handle vast and heterogeneous data required to be processed in any virtual screening protocol. A cloud computing platorm ChemInfoCloud was built and integrated with several chemoinformatics and bioinformatics tools. The robust engine performs the core chemoinformatics tasks of lead generation, lead optimisation and property prediction in a fast and efficient manner. It has also been provided with some of the bioinformatics functionalities including sequence alignment, active site pose prediction and protein ligand docking. Text mining, NMR chemical shift (1H, 13C) prediction and reaction fingerprint generation modules for efficient lead discovery are also implemented in this platform. We have developed an integrated problem solving cloud environment for virtual screening studies that also provides workflow management, better usability and interaction with end users using container based virtualization, OpenVz.
authors.affiliation: Digital Information Resource Centre (DIRC) & Centre of Excellence in Scientific Computing (CoESC) CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Pune - 411008 India. m.karthikeyan@ncl.res.in.
authors.forename: Muthukumarasamy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Karthikeyan
authors.forename: Deepak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pandit
authors.forename: Arvind
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhavasar
authors.forename: Renu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vyas
mesh_terms: D018926:Anti-Allergic Agents / Q000737:chemistry; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000737:chemistry; D000067917:Cloud Computing; D019295:Computational Biology; D057225:Data Mining; D015195:Drug Design; D008024:Ligands; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D018926:Anti-Allergic Agents; D000959:Antihypertensive Agents; D008024:Ligands