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    Computational analysis of Zingiber officinale phytochemicals to evaluate the potency against SARS-CoV-2 using protein 5rgm and 2gz9
    (UMT.Lahore, 2021) FARAH RAFIQ
    Medicinal plants such as garlic, ginger and ginseng etc. have gained importance in the field of medicine and drug development because of very less side effects. Acute Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus has become very challenging around the world which arised from China so it has become important to discover drug against it. But it has a liability to vary the sequences of amino acid so there is a great need to develop acceptable vaccine against the protein of virus. For effective drugs, bioinformatics and pharmacogenomics are used because of effective results and lessen the hazard, expenditure and time. This is a promising idea to develop inhibitor by using phytochemical compounds and form structure based drugs which can be functional against viral proteins. Study showed that 6-gingerol which is the phytochemical in ginger could be an effective drug of newly arriving pandemic disease. The present study aims to screen bioactive compounds from Zingiber officinale and its pharmacological screening reported many medicinal characteristics like anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, antioxidant, cytotoxic, anti-diabetic, larvicidal, anthelmintic, nephroprotective, hepatoprotective and analgesic activity. Out of two hundred, around 86 phytochemicals were nontoxic which were examined by ADME and PROTOX and 10 phytochemicals gave best results which were studied further. The selected proteins of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 were 5rgm and 2gz9. Molecular docking was done to determine the binding affinity, correct molecular geometry and number of hydrogen bonds. The result showed that phytochemicals such as Diacetoxy-[4]-gingerdiol, [4]-Shogaol, Methyl [6]-paradol, Gingerenone-A, Zingerone, 2-Heptanone, 2-Heptanol, 6-Methyl-5-hepten-2-one, α-Myrcene and α Phellandrene are nontoxic and can be used as a drug