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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

this program was very informative and good.

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

It was a very informative workshop and I got to learn a lot of new things. I also go to clarify my doubts and get a better concept of the bioinformatics tools and their use in analysis of genomics and proteomics. I extend my thanks to the BioDiscovery Group.

**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"

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.