March 30, 2009: VLifeMDS™ 3.5 to be used for research and training at IMTECH. VLife announced that Institute of Mirobial Technology, Chandigarh (IMTECH), Chandigarh has licensed its flagship software product VLifeMDS™ (VLife Molecular Design Suite). Researchers, faculties and students at IMTECH will use the software for variety of computer aided drug discovery work. Additionally the software will also be used extensively for imparting knowledge and education to the students and for various academic and industrial training purposes. We are very pleased to be associated with one of the best institutes in the country in the fields of bioinformatics. The software will a good value addition for the research and educational activities at IMTECH’, said VLife’s CEO Mr Supreet Deshpande.

About IMTECH
IMTECH is the premier biology institution in India subcontinent. The institute carries out integrated research & development in the emerging areas of biotechnology and microbiology.

For more details please visit: http://www.imtech.res.in/

About VLife Sciences Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
VLife Sciences Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a pioneer in computer aided drug and molecular discovery technologies and offers a range of software for molecular modeling, simulation, analysis, visualization and prediction.

For more details please visit: www.vlifesciences.com or contact us at info@vlifesciences.com

About VLifeMDS™ 3.5
VLifeMDS™ is a comprehensive software for computer aided drug discovery (CADD) that works on a conventional PC and Microsoft Windows® operating system. VLifeMDS™ 3.5 includes advanced technologies like kNN-MFA and GQSAR™ that overcome limitations in handling molecular fragments and which facilitate an indirect approach to drug discovery. It implements GRIP™ docking that offers superior docking results in terms of accuracy as well as speed and which facilitates a direct approach to drug discovery. Apart from these unique features the software also has extensive facilities for visualizing and optimizing a library of molecules, for generating a combinatorial library, for chemoinformatics and for calculating molecular properties. It also provides tools for protein analysis, homology modeling and for conducting 2D QSAR and 3D QSAR studies.