Fifth Paradigm Lab

About  PI...

Dr. G. Narahari Sastry is a Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, IIT Hyderabad. His research interests are working in the interdisciplinary areas of chemistry, biology, material science, software development and artificial intelligence. In the last decade, GNS group was involved in developing an indigenous software which aims to strengthen the computational drug discovery called Molecular Property Diagnostic Suite (MPDS), and thereby working towards Aatma Nirbhar Bharat. Dr. Sastry has also made fundamental contributions in the field of non-covalent interaction, Bucky bowl chemistry, aromaticity, pericyclic reaction. He has made a great contribution in open-source software development in the field of Computer Aided Drug Discovery, databases, web servers, all the resources developed by his group are freely accessible to the scientific community. He has published more than 340 research articles in reputed journals with an active average impact factor. Most of his papers are well cited with the citation score nearly 14,500 an h-index of 56, and an i10-index of 259, as per the google scholar. Dr. Sastry and his group have mainly contributed and maintained various web-based platforms and databases like a) MPDS (for several diseases), b) CAD, c) A2ID, d) PLID e) NEI-MPDB, f) OSADHI