{"id":53395,"date":"2015-02-05T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ca1ac2d539eea09b405709da00b1d459"},"modified":"2015-02-05T10:30:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T10:30:28","slug":"news-story-computer-simulations-to-help-in-antimicrobial-drug-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53395","title":{"rendered":"News story: Computer simulations to help in antimicrobial drug development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> funded 2 projects with <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/moleculomics.com\/\">Moleculomics<\/a> to develop new platforms that could assist with the development of novel antimicrobial drugs. The computer-based platforms use simulations and modelling to allow faster and more reliable antimicrobial development programmes. <\/p>\n<p>The projects have resulted in high-value genome-scale molecular information to improve knowledge of interactions between the proteins of an organism and chemical compounds. Based on the successes of the <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> projects, Moleculomics is developing the resulting technologies for a number of different applications.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jonathan Mullins, Chairman, Moleculomics says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> funding has allowed us to complete 2 valuable proof-of-concept studies, which have been critical to the initial creation, growth and subsequent product offering of Moleculomics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A spin-out of Swansea University, Moleculomics was founded in December 2012 and started trading in July 2013. The company is based within the Institute of Life Science at Swansea University and employs 8 people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1917\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Centre for Defence Enterprise<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Building R103<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFermi Avenue<br \/>\n<br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"locality\">Harwell Oxford<\/span><br \/><span class=\"region\">Oxfordshire<\/span><br \/><span class=\"postal-code\">OX11 0QX<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:cde@dstl.gov.uk\">cde@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone <\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)30 67704236\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Alternative number<\/span><br \/>\n              +44 (0)30 67704237\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Please email for the quickest response.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case study from Swansea-based Moleculomics who pitched their ideas to industry and investors at the CDE Marketplace on 5 February 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}