The area of Basic and Computational Sciences (DBCS) aims at leading novel and advanced research in fundamental sciences and their allied frontiers to provide logical blueprint in the advances of healthcare in Africa and the rest of the globe. The key areas of focus include (but not limited to) chemical sciences, computational chemistry, computational genomics and proteomics, molecular quantum chemistry, computational biology, materials and molecular modeling, computer-aided drug design, electronic structure methods, computational biomolecular sciences, molecular dynamics, chemical physics, computational nanotechnology, high performance computing, computational pharmaceutical sciences, chemical informatics etc.
