Seminar/Workshop Announcement
 
 


Solvent Acessibility Prediction in Proteins

Speaker:
Dr Shandar Ahmad, Jamia Millia Islamia University

Venue: Meeting Room, School of Computer Engineering
Date: 18 May 2006
Time: 1:30 - 2:30 pm

 

 

 

Abstract:
Solvent accessibility is a key property of proteins to characterize them at each amino acid location within a chain. It plays crucial role on protein-protein, protein-dna and protein-ligand interactions as well as determining the stability of protein structures. Due to a large gap in the number of available 3D structures of proteins and due to a need to summarize the 3D structure in the form of local and global descriptors, there is a pressing need to accurately predict solvent accessibility of proteins from their sequence information. We have extensively worked in this area and made several advances in the field of predicting solvent accessibility from amino acid sequence. I will review my key contributions to this subject and present some ongoing work in this direction.

Biodata of Speaker:
Dr Shandar Ahmad obtained Doctor of Philosophy in (computational condensed matter) Physics in 1994 from Department of Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), India. After graduation he joined Department of Biosciences, Jamia Millia Islamia University as a lecturer, where he is a Reader now. He has been a visiting scientist with Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He has recently published research papers in the field of bioinformatics in high impact factor journals and developed a number of scientific software, which are made available online on his website www.netasa.org. This site provides links to online tools for prediction/ analysis of different aspects of biological systems, developed by Dr Shandar and colleagues.

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