Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) models attempt to relate the structure of the molecule with its chemical and biological activity. We have seen in the literature, that some physical property such as boiling point of a compound can be predicted very […]
The Java computer language was developed at Oracle Corporation, in California, USA. The Java software package CDK stands for Chemoinformatics Developer Kit and can be used for analysing molecular information. A derived package rcdk by Rajarshi Guha and others makes […]
There is another side to the government response to the SAR-CoV2 as the Covid19 virus is also known. These are from the molecular biologists and pharmacologists, who are finding an antivirus to it. An invitation in the mail to participate […]
The word Timocracy appeared in a cryptic crossword last week. I google it to find out that the Greek philosopher Plato had described various forms of state and governance, including this one. If I have understood ancient Greek correctly, in […]
In the malaise that grips an individual caught in the middle of a pandemic is the foreboding that no one knows anything about it. Even the name of the virus “novel coronavirus” implies that human society has not seen anything […]
I compared the emphasis on testing between various countries, over the seven month period from December 31st 2019 to July 30th 2020. Many countries did not report cases in the early months, but the mean comparison over the extended period […]
In my last blog, I looked at the stringency index of 30 countries. This is an index devised by the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and is an aggregate of 9 measures of government enforcement on […]
The business and consumer behaviour are being shaken up due to coronavirus on a larger scale. The private and public sectors are jousting to slow the spread of COVID-19. We know that there are drastic measures taken to contain the spread […]
The impact of the Coronavirus pandemic will be felt by organisations beyond six months. Organizations are struggling with an unprecedented challenge that is essentially different from what they have encountered earlier. In this hour of crisis, the HR function has […]
The present outbreak of Coronavirus as a Pandemic is affecting several countries across the globe. Coronavirus-Pandemic-Social distancing-Self-isolation-Infections, are the words very often heard, spoken and ringing in the ears of many across the globe, irrespective of the fact wherever they […]