Revista de Petróleo y Biotecnología Ambiental

Abstracto

In Silico Approach for the Bioremediation of Toxic Pollutants

Fazlurrahman Khan, Mohammad Sajid and Swaranjit Singh Cameotra

Microbial degradation is considered as one of the environment friendly and cost-effective method for restoration of ecological niches contaminated with chemical pollutants. Thus before the application of microbial system for the degradation of any newly released pollutant in the environment, there is need to in silico study for predicting the possible degradation pathways by using various computational tools. There are large number of databases and computer programs available to perform the computational analysis for assisting the development and implementation of microbial bioremediation. The present review provides a comprehensive account of these databases, software, their respective work methodologies and potential application for the bioremediation. The information collected for the above study from different in silico resources for assisting the environmental degradation studies is discussed.