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Events and news

Where we have been, and where we are going next.

Our own news, the workshops, seminars and conferences we run across India, and the outside science that shapes how we build. Every teaching event runs on live platforms and real targets rather than slides.

15events since 2024
5hands on workshops
6seminars and talks
3conferences
Upcoming

What is coming next.

No open workshop dates are listed at the moment. Tell us what your department needs and we will arrange one.

SilicoScientia news

What we have published
and signed.

Papers, partnerships, platform releases and programmes, from us. The outside articles we read are further down the page and are labelled as such.

As of 12 October 2026
Research

32 peer reviewed publications, 8 of them run on SilicoXplore

Our research now stands at 32 peer reviewed papers in 19 journals, covering tuberculosis, oncology, antimicrobial resistance, antifungal, antiviral and neurological targets. 8 of them were run on the SilicoXplore platform.

9 October 2026
Publication

SilicoSAR, the machine-learning QSAR module of SilicoXplore, is published

The paper, “SilicoSAR: an integrated machine-learning QSAR module within the SilicoXplore platform for QSAR-based virtual screening, demonstrated by the discovery of natural-product EGFR inhibitors”, appears in Computational Biology and Chemistry, volume 126, article 109467. It presents SilicoSAR, builds and validates a potency model for EGFR, and carries a screen of natural products through ADMET, docking, molecular dynamics and free-energy analysis. It is a further peer reviewed paper on a SilicoXplore module.

4 September 2026
Publication

The SilicoXplore platform paper is published

The paper, “SilicoXplore: An integrated cloud platform coupling machine learning with physics-based modelling for end-to-end drug discovery, applied to the computational prioritisation of putative New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 binders”, appears in the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, volume 149 (2026), article 109566. It describes the platform as a whole and applies it to one target, NDM-1.

September 2026
Platform

Every Boltz package, inside SilicoXplore

Through our collaboration with Boltz, every Boltz package is available in SilicoXplore, next to its thirty one modules. Structure and affinity prediction, protein design and small-molecule hit discovery run from the same guided forms as docking, dynamics and free energy.

September 2025
Programme

Advanced Diploma in AI and Computational Drug Discovery, with the School of Pharmacy and Research

A one year, full time programme offered jointly with the School of Pharmacy and Research at Dr. D. Y. Patil Dnyan Prasad University, Pune. The first batch has graduated. The programme page has the curriculum and the current admissions.

28 November 2024
Partnership

Memorandum of understanding with Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

We signed a memorandum of understanding for joint research and training with the institute in Pimpri, Pune, at a seminar on AI assisted drug discovery. The institute is now the School of Pharmacy and Research at Dr. D. Y. Patil Dnyan Prasad University, our partner for the Advanced Diploma.

Events archive

Out of the office,
into the laboratory.

We teach the platforms where they will be used. These are the workshops, seminars and conferences we have run or taken part in, most recent first.

IndiBioCom 2026, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, ChennaiConference
7 to 9 September 2026

IndiBioCom 2026

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai

SilicoScientia presented at IndiBioCom 2026, covering AI assisted target identification and the physics based evaluation that follows it.

Hands on workshop on SilicoXplore and OmicsXplore, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, ChennaiWorkshop
6 September 2026

Hands on workshop on SilicoXplore and OmicsXplore

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai

A full day of hands on training in which participants ran both platforms themselves, from sequence analysis through to docking and pose evaluation.

Guest Talk 2026 on Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery, KLE College of Pharmacy, BengaluruSeminar
16 March 2026

Guest Talk 2026 on Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery

KLE College of Pharmacy, Bengaluru

Dr. Md Ataul Islam spoke to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry on how AI and physics based methods are redefining the future of medicine.

One day hands on workshop on AI assisted drug discovery, RGITBT, Bharati Vidyapeeth, PuneWorkshop
28 February 2026

One day hands on workshop on AI assisted drug discovery

RGITBT, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune

A condensed version of our three day programme, run for a new cohort in the bioinformatics laboratory at Bharati Vidyapeeth.

International Seminar and Experimental Training Programme, Nagpur College of Pharmacy, NagpurSeminar
17 February 2026

International Seminar and Experimental Training Programme

Nagpur College of Pharmacy, Nagpur

An international seminar on the importance of artificial intelligence and machine learning in drug discovery, followed by an experimental training session.

National Conference on Computational Biology and AI in Drug Discovery 2026, NIMS, MumbaiConference
6 and 7 February 2026

National Conference on Computational Biology and AI in Drug Discovery 2026

NIMS, Mumbai

SilicoScientia exhibited and presented a case study on SilicoXplore applied to EGFR targeted glioblastoma treatment.

Two day hands on workshop on SilicoXplore, Ramaiah University, BengaluruWorkshop
6 and 7 August 2025

Two day hands on workshop on SilicoXplore

Ramaiah University, Bengaluru

Two days of supervised bench work in which participants took their own targets through the platform, with one to one support at every station.

Three day hands on workshop on AI assisted drug discovery, RGITBT, Bharati Vidyapeeth, PuneWorkshop
29 to 31 July 2025

Three day hands on workshop on AI assisted drug discovery

RGITBT, Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune

Our longest teaching programme to date, covering preparation, docking, machine learning prediction and simulation across three full days.

Delivery and demonstration of SilicoXplore, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, NagpurWorkshop
11 and 12 July 2025

Delivery and demonstration of SilicoXplore

Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur

Platform delivery to the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, with a live demonstration and training for the research group that would run it.

Seminar on computational drug discovery, University of Calcutta, KolkataSeminar
5 February 2025

Seminar on computational drug discovery

University of Calcutta, Kolkata

A seminar for research scholars on how machine learning and physics based methods combine across a single discovery workflow.

AI in Drug Discovery and Development: Opportunities and Challenges, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, BengaluruSeminar
10 December 2024

AI in Drug Discovery and Development: Opportunities and Challenges

Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

An invited talk on where computational methods genuinely shorten a discovery programme, and where they do not.

Seminar and platform demonstration, Symbiosis International University, PuneSeminar
28 November 2024

Seminar and platform demonstration

Symbiosis International University, Pune

A seminar followed by a working demonstration of the platform for faculty and research students at the Symbiosis Institute of Technology.

Seminar and MoU signing, Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Pimpri, PuneSeminar
28 November 2024

Seminar and MoU signing

Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Pimpri, Pune

A seminar on AI assisted drug discovery, concluded with the signing of a memorandum of understanding for joint research and training.

OutcomeThe institute, now the School of Pharmacy and Research at Dr. D. Y. Patil Dnyan Prasad University, is our partner for the Advanced Diploma, whose first batch has graduated.

ICABB 2024, International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, PuneConference
26 and 27 November 2024

ICABB 2024, International Conference on Advances in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics

Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, Pune

SilicoScientia presented the platform architecture behind SilicoXplore and OmicsXplore to an audience of biotechnology and bioinformatics researchers.

Company offsite, Lonavala, MaharashtraCompany
6 June 2024

Company offsite

Lonavala, Maharashtra

The whole team away from the screens for a day, which is how a small group that works this closely stays one.

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What we are reading

Outside science
worth your time.

External commentary, not our news. These are articles by other people that bear on how we work, each with a line on why. It is a reading list and not a news feed, so it is chosen with care rather than updated daily. Every item opens the original source in a new tab.

Awarded for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, work that explains how molecules with mirror image forms end up with one form dominating. Chirality decides whether a drug candidate works or harms, so this sits at the centre of medicinal chemistry.

NobelPrize.org

Recognised for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the detection of high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin, using a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice as the detector.

NobelPrize.org

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the prize for discoveries concerning light gated ion channels and optogenetics, the technique that lets researchers switch defined neurons on and off with light.

NobelPrize.org

A review in Communications Biology covers protein binder design and conformational state prediction, the two problems that matter most once a static structure is no longer the bottleneck. Both feed directly into the preparation and docking stages of a discovery cascade.

Communications Biology

The demonstration establishes trusted quantum computation on error corrected logical circuits rather than raw physical qubits, a prerequisite before quantum methods can be applied to molecular electronic structure problems at useful scale.

IBM Newsroom

Google DeepMind marks five years since the AlphaFold paper, with the structure database now underpinning a large share of published structural biology. Predicted structures are the starting point for much of the pocket detection and docking work we run.

Google DeepMind

Nature reports on new embryo editing results and the scientific and ethical response to them, a reminder that the governance conversation is moving as fast as the method.

Nature

Nature examines the individualised neoantigen vaccine results and what they mean for personalised treatment, where the candidate itself is computed per patient from sequencing data.

Nature

The Innovative Genomics Institute keeps a running account of every CRISPR therapy in the clinic, including the first personalised in vivo base editing treatments. It is the clearest single view of how fast editing is reaching patients.

Innovative Genomics Institute

Drug Target Review's quarter in summary: what changed in target selection, modality choice and AI assisted design, and which of it holds up against clinical evidence.

Drug Target Review

OpenAI introduces a model built for life sciences work. Worth reading alongside the caveat that applies to every such system: a prediction is a hypothesis until an experiment or a physics based calculation says otherwise.

OpenAI

A monthly roundup of model and tooling releases, several of which touch scientific computing and structured reasoning over biological data.

Google

The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium publishes its release schedule and data drops. A pangenome reference changes variant calling for populations that the original reference represented poorly, which matters for every WGS and WES run.

Human Pangenome Reference Consortium

A reported abscopal response following intratumoural treatment, where a local intervention produced systemic tumour control. Early stage, but the mechanism is the one immunotherapy has been chasing for a decade.

ScienceDaily

The Department of Biotechnology and BIRAC invite proposals to establish Bio-AI hubs under the BioE3 policy for biomanufacturing, part of a wider national push to put computation at the centre of Indian biotechnology.

BIRAC
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