Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics at the Interface with Systems Biology

Dongqing Wei is a professor of Bioinformatics at Shanghai Jiaotong University and editor-in-chief of "Interdisciplinary Sciences- Computational Life Sciences". Over the past three decades he has made many grand breaking contributions to the development of molecular simulation techniques and their interdisciplinary applications to systems of ever-increasing complexity. He has published more than 350 papers, 9 monographs with 6000 SCI citations and a H factor of 50. Aman Chandra Kaushik is a core computational biologist with a proclivity for biological databases and nature inspired algorithms. He holds Bachelors in Life Science (DDU University, India); Masters in Bioinformatics (CSJM University, India); PhD in Bioinformatics (Indo-Israel collaborative Project) and Post-doctorate in computational biology from Ben Gurion University, Israel. Currently, he is a Research assistant at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was a research fellow in Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sponsored project. Zhengtian Yu is Associate Director at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR), Shanghai, China. Over the past three decades he has made many grand breaking contributions to the development of CADD techniques and their interdisciplinary applications to systems of ever-increasing complexity. Shakti Sahi is a Professor at School of Biotechnology, Gautam Buddha University. She holds a PhD in Molecular Modelling and Drug Designfrom Department of Biophysics, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. Prior to this, she completed a Masters in pharmacy from the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Her research works focus on molecular modelling and drug design with special emphasis on G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCRs).Ajay Kumar is a biologist with a proclivity for nanotechnology and materials science. He holds a Bachelors and Masters in mechanical Eng. (Gautam Buddha University, India) and a PhD from National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. Currently, he is a Research scholar at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan.

• System Biology and Drug Target Identification;Modulating Drug Target Gene Expression in Cancer;Drug Repositioning Using Genome-wide Screening and Systems Biology Approaches and Applications;New Directions in System Biology-based Target Identification and Cancer Genome Analysis;Molecular Investigation of Protein–Protein Interaction Candidates Related to Mammalian Brain;Biological Systems to Computational Systems Biology;Controlled Vocabularies and Semantics in Systems Biology;Single-molecule Imaging in Biosystems;Tracking the Emergence of Synthetic Biology;Synthetic Biology: Fostering the Cyber-biological Revolution;Computational Systems Chemical Biology;Systems Biology Methods to Assist in the Discovery of Efficacious Drug Combinations