Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBB)

Director: Southerland, William, Ph.D.

Summary:

Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CCBB) Laboratory of Molecular Computations and Bioinformatics (LMCB) is a resource facility dedicated to the support of computational biomedical research at Howard University. The objective of the laboratory is to provide molecular modeling, molecular dynamics, bioinformatics, and computational quantum chemistry capabilities and support to a variety of research projects at Howard University.

Affiliations:

• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

People:

• Director: Southerland, William, Ph.D.
  

Resources:

Services

• Bioinformatics consultation ( Support service )
  

• Software access ( Access service )
  

  Provides licensed access to powerful software suites for authorized Howard University members.

Software

• AutoDock ( Software )
  

  "AutoDock is a suite of automated docking tools. It is designed to predict how small molecules, such as substrates or drug candidates, bind to a receptor of known 3D structure."

• CHARMM ( Software )
  

  "CHARMM (Chemistry at HARvard Molecular Mechanics) is a program for macromolecular simulations, including energy minimization, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations."

• Gaussian ( Software )
  

  Quantum Chemistry analytical software package.

• QUANTA ( Software )
  

  Molecular simulation software.

• SYBYL ( Software )
  

  "SYBYL/Base provides essential construction, editing, and visualization tools for both large and small molecules. Data organization and analysis rely on the Molecular Spreadsheet™"

Web Links:

• http://www.howard.edu/medicine/rcmi/LMCB/default.htm