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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.

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.

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!!!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

**Rating on scale from 1-5** a. How did the course meet your learning objectives?- 3. b. How well was the course organized (program, registration, schedule...)?- 3. c. How do you evaluate your overall experience of training during the program? Valuable. d. Will you recommend this program to others?- 5. e. Overall rating- Okay. Comments or Suggestions regarding the course design and the methodology employed in the Program- "Course is designed such that like read and write. I expected still in a way that i could practically apply."

The course can be more informative and the software training can be given in more detail, since the training was given only to complete the present study, and the other modules and the other options in the software was less known. Hence the practical application may become a little difficult if we perform an individual study.

The training was good.. Thanks to "The CEO - Biodiscovery" and team.

I feel happy to write about BioDiscovery Research team. I completed a six month project which has been very useful for my Research work. Thank you Biodiscovery

The learning experience was good. I am doing my M. Pharmacy,so,it will be helpful to me in future. Before learning this study I didn't have idea much about molecular modelling and drug designing but now I have a good idea about this technology. Methodology was also good. Thanks to BioDiscovery Group, India research unit.

Rating on scale from 1-5** a. How did the course meet your learning objectives? 4 b. How well was the course organized (program, registration, schedule...)? 5 c. How do you evaluate your overall experience of training during the programme? Highly Valuable. d. Will you recommend this program to others? Definitely. e. Overall rating- Very Good Comments or Suggestions regarding the course design and the methodology employed in the Programme "Should include some theoretical classes"

Rating on scale from 1-5** a. How did the course meet your learning objectives?- 4. b. How well was the course organized (program, registration, schedule...)?- 5. c. How do you evaluate your overall experience of training during the program? Valuable. d. Will you recommend this program to others?- 5. e. Overall rating- Very Good. Comments or Suggestions regarding the course design and the methodology employed in the Program- "I am really feeling honored that I got permission for feedback.A lots of thanks from bottom of my heart to specially Asif Sir and his great BioDiscovery team. A heart full obligation for being a part of the team BioDiscovery Solutions for Future"

Please show some videos of the wet lab procedures(lab techniques) the next time a workshop is conducted Very informative.Very polite trainers. Very student-friendly. A special thanks for helping the students in getting accommodation.

The Workshop that I attended on Structure Biology and Proteomics was very helpful since I got to know and learn about the use of many software and their proper usage in predicting the structure of the proteins. The course instructor (Mr.Yash Singh) was very helpful with all the doubts since this was an online workshop and yet I understood every details and I enjoyed attending this a lot.

This workshop will be helpful for my PhD research work. I have learned a lot of unknown thing in a very easy & practical way. The trainer was very helpful and get to know very well. I wish in future I will get more new thing to learn.

I had a great time learning Drug Discovery Technology at Bangalore University. all my queries were dealt right on the spot pertaining to the subject. I wish I have the same platform for InVitro and Invevo technique so that I might have a professional knowledge before stepping in the field of science. Wish so, as the company deals on Insilico technique but still I have some passion towards wet lab. THANK YOU Mr. ASIF NAQVI

A good experience.It helped me to learn about the technologies involved in biomolecules. It would help me to explore the new things in my area of research.

Hello, The workshop program was very good , it has increases my knowledge in a larger extent. Thank you.

Nicely guided and useful for further research organizing studies. The topic drug discovery you have covered in 5 days is nice .

The key to a successful practical workshop is an interactive environment, which is what I found at the 5-day workshop on Drug Discovery, hosted at Bangalore University. Under the guidance of the organizer, Mr. Asif Naqvi, we learnt, not just the basics of drug discovery, but also how to use the different software related to it. This is the first workshop I have attended where practical application is given more emphasis to enable us to learn better. I certainly will use my experience, here, for my future projects and research work. I also look forward to more workshops on different tools conducted by the BioDiscovery Group, and recommend anyone and everyone interested in work related to Biological Sciences, to attend these workshops.

It was a very nice experience. Trainer was also very good Thank you BioDiscovery Group.

Well taught and explained the things in a good way.... I like this kind of online workshop,it further also help me in my research mainly in case for dry lab experiment Thank you

Good workshop and knowledgeable trainer.

this workshop gave me an opportunity to learn many things on drug discovery. the practical approach towards drug discovery was very useful. hope to attend many more such workshops in the future days

It was a very informative workshop. I learned a lot of computational techniques for in silico vaccine that could help me in my future career. The only comment that I've is if you can provide a workflow as the CADD workflow, which will be much better.

I am doing research on virology and this training will be useful in my further research. It was great learning experience to work under guidance of Vandana. I have gain knowledge about vaccine and in silico designing of vaccine.

I was at the beginning stage of bioinformatics the workshop was very useful to me.From there we got many ideas from that topic especially using the herbal plants in the target proteins,myself and my friends will work on this and we will be knowing more about it.And thank u for giving this opportunity.