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I would like to extend my thanks to BDG Lifesciences for providing such a wonderful experience learning from exceptionally knowledgeable trainers. I had no knowledge on Bioinformatics (Drug Discovery and NGS) before the training but after 1 + 3 days of training I am feeling slightly confident that I know about Bioinformatics and it is not a mystery to me. I would like to thanks all the trainers who supported us throughout the training. It was worth value for money. I would strongly recommend my friends to do this training from BDG Lifesciences. SANAA JAMEEL

Sanaa Jameel Almowallad

King Abdul Aziz University, attended the program at Dubai April 2019

The event was really good,I found it really insightful and interesting.

Maryam AlZahrani

King Abdulaziz University., attended the program at Dubai, H hotel.

I would like to thank you for this introductory course of using Second generation sequencing online bioinformatic tool to analyze data. It was very helpful 3 days application and the team was organized. Dr. Soonham Yaghmoor

Dr. Soonham Sami Yaghmoor

King Fahd Medical Research Center, Jeddah, SA, attended the program at Dubai

It was gud bt yr the last topics were covered in hurry due to lack of timing, i m not say that the faculty has not taught us gud bt faculty wouldn't be able to do anything if this much short period is provided to him, so acc to my perception wrkshop should be conducted for at least 3 days, bt in over all experience it ws gud.

Tanya Munjal

Amity university, attended the program at Stirring minds, 2A/3, kundan mansion, asaf ali roa

This workshop really exciting and knowledgeable, though this i able to develop new drug for pathogen. Thank you Asif Naqvi Sir and his team.

Ratish Mishra

Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women. University of Delhi, attended the program at Delhi

It was one of the best workshop. The faculty & the staff was helping students individually, they are providing you the PPTs, Softwares, Hard copy of each & everything. If you are late you can ask them again, if you didn't understand, they'll come to your desk & help you as per your demand. The atmosphere & arena was mind boggling. The software's suggested were user friendly & come under the section of 'Time complexity', from learning to convert MOL file to PDB file to view everything in Chimera, the experience was fantastic. Thank you so much :)

Areeb Anwar Shamsi

Amity University Rajasthan, attended the program at Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Science for Wom

It was a great workshop, learnt a lot! Though, a course like this one deserved a longer time period.

Pragya Saxena

University of Delhi, DIPSAR, attended the program at Le Meridien, Bangaluru

The overall content was good. Venue was nice. In future i am expecting workshop on Molecular Dynamics and Simulations.

Jineetkumar

Gawad SVKM's NMIMS, attended the program at Hotel Le Meridien, Bengaluru

It is very informative and it helps me to make research projects and improve my career in research

Dr Estari Mamidala

Kakatiya University, attended the program at delhi

Was a good experience, got to know the procedure of cancer drug targeting, and also clear with all the Errors that can occur, can apply this in further research

Mahesh Rangrej

Mumbai university, attended the program at Bangalore, jp nagar

The workshop was highly informative. It not only helped us to see how the software is used as only a demonstration, but we had hands on experience of using them and carrying out real docking and visualising the results. This workshop was great in its own way.

Ashasmita Subhadarshine Mishra

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, attended the program at Bangalore

The workshop was very informative and usefule. The way Naqvi sir taught was very easy to understand. The best thing I found was, hands on training on the free softwares which now we can use anytime by ourselves.

Trupti Khatal

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, attended the program at Drug discovery India 2016, Bengaluru

A great learning experience indeed. Detailed description of the procedure involved in drug discovery helped us understand better. The work flow given was extremely helpful. Overall, a very good and informative workshop.

Akhila Parthasarathy

PES UNIVERSITY, attended the program at JP nagar 1st phase

It was good. Presentation could have been better by explaining in depth regarding cancer and minimize the time consumed during hands on section. Because I believe more work can be done in 2 days.

RAMYA.

L M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, attended the program at Bangalore

The workshop was very helpful for my research work. Naqvi sir taught the critical and complecated steps in very easy manner. Now I am confident that I can use these molecular modelling softwares by my own on my laptop at my time. No restrictions, as the softwares provided and taught were freely available. Now I am independent for doing CADD studies.

Shivraj Naik

Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, attended the program at Drug discovery India 2016, Bengaluru

The 8 Day Molecular Docking workshop by BDG Lifesciences, led by Ms. Sharvari Kulkarni, was an outstanding experience. Ms. Kulkarni’s exceptional teaching style stood out—she patiently broke down complex concepts with remarkable clarity and customized the sessions to match my learning pace. Her deep expertise and willingness to address all my queries made the workshop both engaging and highly effective. The hands-on exercises provided invaluable insights into protein-ligand interactions and docking parameter optimization. This workshop has greatly boosted my confidence in computational drug design. Thank you, Ms. Sharvari Ma'am, for such a rewarding learning journey!

Priyanka

B.M.U. Rohtak, India

It was a very informative experience attending a 5-day e-workshop on "Drug Discovery and Design". Our Mentor, Sharvari Kulkarni, was more like a friend than a teacher, who guided and improvised our knowledge and gave us the opportunity to try the hands-on training in real-time during the live class, unlike other workshops where you are struggling with it as homework. A confident, patient, and inspiring mentor like her is rare to find. I am very thankful to hardworking mentors and BDG Lifesciences for providing these opportunities in a timely and having such profound mentors. Will again attend future workshops and strongly recommend others. Thank you very much for everything!! Overall a wonderful experience.

Isha Nagpal

Jawaharlal Nehru University

I am very grateful to the BDG Lifesciences for organizing a workshop on Exome sequencing analysis, and introducing me to Dr. Bharati Mittal who was the resource person for the workshop. I am especially thankful to Dr. Bharati Mittal for sharing her extensive knowledge on such an exclusive and classified topic. It was in every bit a hand-on workshop especially for a biologist like me who wanted to venture into computational bioinformatics to conduct the NGS analysis of patient samples with little knowledge of Linux based operating systems. Dr. Bharati literally filled the gap between the lab to the patient, with her excellent teaching skills whereby she eloquently explained the biology and principle of Exome sequencing and then taught the commands that began with the fastqc file and all the way to the final annotated vcf file generation. I was allowed to use my own data for the entire analysis, which we compared to the final report. She explained the attributes of the ACMG-AMP guidelines with amazing simplicity. Despite a virtual platform, it was an exciting experience to work remotely using a lab-based server during off-hours from home, under her patient guidance. I highly recommend this workshop to all those working in basic science and computational biology backgrounds.

Linda Koshy

SCTIMST Trivandrum India

Regarding Artificial Intelligence in Biology. I found it will take time to learn it as not having computer background anyhow it was fine to see this what is covered in biology with it.

Minakshi Garg

UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh

My name is Shailvi Tewari.I am a third year student of B.Tech-Biotechnology at SRM Institute of Technology.I attended the 5 day workshop titled 'In silico training in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering' organised by BDG LifeSciences. It was a good experience overall.I gained a lot of knowledge.The instructor was very thorough with all the topics. I am grateful to BDG group for conducting online workshops and making it possible for students like me to continue learning and making sure we do not miss out on knowledge and skills due to the current pandemic. Thank you. Warm regards.

Shailvi Tewari

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

My name is Shailvi Tewari.I am a third year student of B.Tech-Biotechnology at SRM Institute of Technology.I attended the 5 day workshop titled 'In silico training in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering' organised by BDG LifeSciences. It was a good experience overall.I gained a lot of knowledge.The instructor was very thorough with all the topics. I am grateful to BDG group for conducting online workshops and making it possible for students like me to continue learning and making sure we do not miss out on knowledge and skills due to the current pandemic. Thank you. Warm regards.

Shailvi Tewari

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Workshop was organized well. I could leran docking nicely. I hope to be in touch with group in future.

Nishant Joshi

Shiv Nadar University

It was a great experience learning artificial intelligence in biology with BioDiscovery group. I get to know about many new fields and areas which have AI application and influence. Thank you BioDiscovery group for helping me in learning this new researched area.

Harshita Agarwal

Amity University

Thanks for the workshop and learning provide by you. It is very helpful for my project work.

Biswajit Sahoo

Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar

I had a great experience and learnt many new things. Thank you for introducing the Galaxy software during the workshop. It has made me more eager to explore new things and has increased my liking in the field. Sir who conducted the workshop explained it nicely and was quite patient and helpful. He made sure each one of us completed the experiment and cleared our doubts too. Thank you for conducting such courses. I will surely opt for other courses too as possible.

Sanmati Dugad

BE Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University

I am doing my genetic engineering actually before this program i thought that i knew everything about drugs and how to design them and etc but after getting through this training program only i realise that there is a lot to drugs and their actions plus it made me much interested in the program. Thank you and keep up the good work.

Dhanush R A

SRM INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

On Molecular Modeling Study of binding mode of Inhibitors and Biological Targets in Cancer, Tuberculosis & HIV from 18 - 22 December, 2018.I really learnt all the steps of drug design in very systematic n well planned manner. This has really enhanced my learning that i really required for my skills.In future also i will be interested in attending such workshops n training to enhance my skills in bioinformatics so pls keep me updating about this as i want to increase my teaching skills n also interested in enhancing my skills in research too. I think u can provide me the same. Thanks alot n keep me in touch with biodiscovery group.

Dr Minakshi Garg

UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Very good workshop, explained te basics and analysis for NGS very well. Would have been better if there was some more explanation on reports generated from analysis.

Ambreen Shaikh

Foundation for medical research

this program was very informative and good.

FATHIMATHUZ ZEHRA WAASIA

GENETIKA,Dubai UAE

The workshop was very good and informational. The explanation of topic was clear. Looking forward to more such workshops.

Ishita Vaishkiar

Amity University

The course was extremely helpful in learning using Autodock 2.0. It helped me a lot in writing my master thesis paper. Well done Biodiscovery team, I am looking forward to publish the paper with you.

Taiba Hamed Youssef Gamal El Din

Faculty of Biotechnology and life Science- Beni suef University, attended the program at Online

The project taught us new skills and gave us the vivid and clear knowledge of virtual screening. It helped me in gaining insight of the topic.

Mohammad Nawaid Zaman

Amity University, noida, attended the program at Delhi

I had a great experience while working on this project.I get to know about the different software being used in in-silico technology.Now I am aware of this technology, thanks to this project. All the team members are very cooperative and helpful.

Monica Kumari

Amity University, attended the program at Noida

I liked the process of delivering class. Good backup and support. I enjoyed working with biodiscovery group. I would definitely like to work more with biodiscovery.

Dr Kokila BN

KVG Medical college and Hospital, Sullia., attended the program at Online

It was a good step by step teaching modules. I would refer your service to others. I would love to get involved in more project like this.

Dr Darshan C.L

KVG Medical college and hospital, attended the program at Online

It was a great experience working with the members of BioDiscovery Group ....Asif sir has been a constant support all through project and guided me with every single query I had ....it was an amazing experience working hear.....hope I will get more chances to work with all you ....

Harshita Agarwal

Amity institute of biotechnology, attended the program at Delhi

Hi,this is Saurav Choudhary from New Delhi.Recently I have completed a research project in structure based drug discovery.It was nice working with BioDiscovery group.I would like to thank Asif sir for giving me this wonderful opportunity.Got to learn many new things and important concepts which will surely help me in building my career. Asif sir is the real genius.He was a constant support through out the project. Waiting for another chance to work with this wonderful team.

Saurav Kumar

Amity Institute of Biotechnology, attended the program at Noida

I had worked on a research project under the guidance of Dr. Asif Naqvi. He was really very helpful and kind during the course of the project. I have also done workshops with Biodiscovery Group which has helped me in my career and many different ways. The team was very helpful and very quick whenever I was in need of any help or faced any doubts. The project was explained and demonstrated to me in a well and organised way. Looking forward to work with this firm again in my near future.

Neha Gupta

Amity Institute of Biotechnology, attended the program at Noida

I found this project is powerful, benefit and excellent.but it need more concern in theory.

sofia ziada

University of Khartoum/ veterinary medicine, attended the program at Sudan

it was a good learning experience while working on research project" Molecular Docking study of p38 MAP Kinase|Inhibitory study for discovery of new anti-inflammatory drugs"

Dr Raj Kaushal

National Institute of Technology Hamirpur HP, attended the program at Hamirpur HP India

It was an informative research project as i learned alot about the computational approaches for drug discoveries and designing. Thanks for giving me this opportunity and for helping me to build my future career. Adding some phases will be interesting and informative such as drug target selection, Homology modeling ( in case of no protein structure available in PDB), virtual screening based on either structural similarity or pharmacophore similarity and protein 3D structure analysis. Special thanks for Prof. Asif for helping me in the research project and for his great efforts too.

Moustafa Ahmed Mohammed

October university for modern sciences and arts university, Egypt, attended the program at Online

Dear Sir/ Madam Thanks for all your help and continued encouragement during the project. Research project was informative and worthwhile.Thank you team for such a nice experience which would help me in the future endeavors.

Harvinder Khera

Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu, attended the program at Structure based drug design of P53 stabilizing drug

This was a great experience. I learned a lot about the computer aided drug design, bioinformatics and computational biology. I'm so thankful for Prof. Asif for his great efforts during the project and for helping me to complete this work. I recommend to add some extra phases such as virtual screening, protein active site and residues prediction, and homology modeling in case of working with novel protein. Thanks you

Moustapha Ahmed Mohammed

October university for Modern Sciences and Arts university (MSA university), Egypt, attended the program at Online

It was a very good experience I had with BioDiscovery group. The work went on smooth and the training was good, supplemented with appropriate materials to be equipped with the subject matter. The trainers were patient and helpful. I got an Experience Letter too from Asif Naqvi (CEO) for having researched in here. By a positive approach, excellence and efficiency of work, towards the projects, I am confident that BioDiscovery Group is on its way to provide me the credentials with the aid of a publication and/or a poster at International conference. Overall it was very interesting and fantastic experience to research at the BioDiscovery Group.

Shreekara Gopalakrishnan

Karnatak University, Dharwad, attended the program at Bangalore, Karnataka, India

I have worked on Ebola virus program and being in touch with biodiscovery group people since past 8 months. The course work designed is very useful to get hands on drug designing concept. Thank you Biodiscovery Group people for clearing all my doubts during the journey. I would recommend each and everyone to do atleast a short term program with biodiscovery group to understand the concepts behind drug designing. Thank you and Best wishes Pallavi

Pallavi Sahare

RTM Nagpur university, attended the program at Nagpur

The online training for drug discovery has been an amazing experience for me. Its easily accessible and one can be a part of the training from any part of the world because it is conducted online. Understanding the basics of how actually molecules are selected to be in the run of being a potential drug in the future is all I ever wanted to learn and explore, and Biodiscovery group made it possible.

shubhangi kandwal

Delhi Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research University

The Molecular Dynamic Simulation (MDS) training session was clear, well organized. Advantages: --The trainer was accurate in time. --Most of my questions and queries were clearly answered. Disadvantages: --The MDS outcome interpretation has not been explained clearly. --Also, the fee of the workshop is very expensive from my view. Comment: In overall, I am pleased with the workshop and I highly recommend this workshop to other colleague.

Amina Ibrahim

University of Khartoum, Faculty of Pharmacy

I decided to join this workshop in order to get hands on experience in molecular docking. We are using network pharmacology based approaches to scientifically validate the Ayurvedic medicinal plants and formulations. In that we use docking as a validation tool for the data generated. This workshop was helpful in that aspect to get the hands on exposure. The positive things about the workshop were (1) one on one training that gave opportunity to understand the lessons well and clear the doubts, (2) introduced different tools/software that gave an idea how to select them based on the application and (3) the trainers showed the patience to clear the doubts. I felt it would have been excellent if the theory part was explained in a proper and organised way which was weak at many places. Also felt that it would have been useful if you had provided some video links to refer after the course hours. Also have the opinion that the fee of INR. 17000 only for modelling and docking was higher. Altogether it was a nice experience for the last 20 days and I thank all the trainers and the BD team! Wish the BD team all the best in your future endeavours!!!

Uma Chandran

Savitribai Phule Pune University

The training programme is very useful for developing basic knowledge on Protein modelling and interpreting the Molecular Dynamics mechanism. Overall the institution is very cooperative and supportive, especially, Yash sir. Thank You

SIDHARTH PRASAD MISHRA

DEPARTMENT OF ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, ORIS

Many thanks for providing the opportunity to learn something new in such an easy way. I have one suggestion though, that you could schedule the classes for the same time for all students with an interactive chatting manner. Thank you for the pleasant experience.

Jenny Jose

Lecturer, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Kerala

The course contents and the tutor who taught are really good. I would like to mention that a video tutorial would have been lot better along with chat on Skype(to clear doubts), like the coursera workshops. It s really good to know that the tutors are extending their support to clear doubts if any, even after the workshop. Thank you for all the support.

P. Kalyani

CDFD

I found the workshop very helpful as it will not only help in my PhD but also in future endeavours. Devadrita Dey Sarkar made many of doubts cleared in very easy way. Overall I found the workshop enlightening and helpful for me.

ANUBRATA PAUL

SRM University, Haryana, Centre for Drug Design Discovery & Development (C-4D)

Overall it was good. Bioinfo/analysis part was a little difficult to understand. The sessions would have been better if they have audio than text. That would have been more interactive. But very informative overall..for a starter.

Sapna Godavarthi

CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS

Name of the program: 7-day NGS workshop: 1- The trainer is very knowledgeable and can answer any question related to the topic. 2- I suggest that the next NGS training to be as a project-based learning workshop instead of sending theoretical information and YouTube videos via Skype. In other words, the training is better to be on a project related to the topic, and the trainer sends tasks gradually to the participants to be performed daily, then Q&A session for every task to answer all doubts. Briefly, like last year Drug discovery technology workshop which was very interesting and amazing.

Abdularahman Abdulkader

International Islamic University Malaysia

Learning NGS was really useful and informative for me. It helped to enhance my understanding in NGS. Hope more workshops in future. Thank you!

Lisina.K.V

Bharathiar University

Thanks for BioDiscovery Group for this course . I found this course powerful and the trainer is creative, very honest, smart, committed in time and have good knowledge. this course really solve my problem in NGS. Thanks for all

Sofia Ziada

University of khartoum/ veterinary medicine/ tropical medicine research institute

I completed a two month training in computational aided drug designing. I got to learn protein optimization and energy minimization which can further aid me in my higher education. The staffs were very helpful and the concept they gave were all straight forward. I just have one request that instead of two months they should also conduct six months training which can be further beneficial. My overall training experience was very pleasant and I'm happy and satisfied with my training.

Shreosi Ghosh

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

It is very helpful to me and it made me learn many things. thank you

Srividya Nadimpalli

Osmania University College of Technology

sincere and grantful thanks to biodiscovery research academy who made us to know some steps about the role of bioinformatics in the field of drug discovery and for guiding us throughout the training. But we are not fully satisfied with the training. Some modules which have been listed in website are not taught to us.peoples had not have an idea where the molecules and minimised pdb files are chosen. If this all been fulfilled for us we would like to gain more training and more knowledge about our bioinformatics in biodiscovery. Please check the feedback as important and try to console our feedback.

M.BALAKARTHIKEYAN

BHARATH UNIVERSITY

It was nice learning many things throughout the duration of the course. The teaching as well as assistance towards queries were attended properly. I have enjoyed learning things with your group. Hope there would be some training program which could deal with the binding site analysis etc to predict the active site of a protein. Thanks.

Deepthi

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology