September 20, 2007

eCheminfo Autumn Community of Practice meeting 2007

The eCheminfo Autumn Community of Practice meeting will take place the week of October 15 at Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia to discuss latest research applications, methods and best practices in drug discovery informatics, design and modelling.

The following conference sessions will be held:
16 October: Virtual Screening, chaired by Christopher Austin (NIH) and Ajay Jain (UCSF)
16 October: Structural Biology, chaired by Max Cummings (Tibotec Pharmaceuticals)
17 October: Structure-based Drug Design, chaired by Jose Duca (Schering-Plough)
17 October: Fragment-based Drug Discovery, chaired by Maria Kontoyianni (Crystax Pharmaceuticals)
18-19 October: Predictive ADME/Toxicology, chaired by Tony Hopfinger (University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy)

Additional workshop activity on virtual screening best practices, knowledge management in R&D and advances in predictive ADME and toxicology will also be held.

Conference speakers include:
Stephen Burley (SGX Pharmaceuticals), Georgia McGaughey (Merck), Charles Lesburg (Schering-Plough), Rick Beger (FDA), Marc Nicklaus (NIH), Woody Sherman (Schrodinger), Daniel Cheney (Bristol Myers Squibb), Paul Labute (Chemical Computing Group), Ajay Jain (UCSF), Alan Cheng (Amgen), Tony Hopfinger (University of New Mexico), Anthony Klon (Pharmacopeia Drug Discovery), Artem Cherkasov (University of British Columbia), Dennis Pelletier (Pfizer), Chaohong Sun (Abbott), Xavier Barril (University of Barcelona), Jose Duca (Schering-Plough), Terry Stouch (JCAMD), Natasja Brooijmans (Wyeth), Gerard Kleywegt (University of Uppsala), Vladimir Poroikov (Russian Academy of Sciences), Christoph Helma (in silico toxicology), Ann Richard (EPA), Judy Madden (Liverpool John Moores University), Julian Tirado-Rives (Yale), Heather Carlson (University of Michigan), Joseph Tomaszewski (NCI), Joseph Contrera (FDA), Christopher Austin (NIH), Jerome Hert (UCSF), Renate Sekul (Graffinity), Gunther Stahl (Tripos), John W Liebeschuetz (CCDC), Wilfried Langenaeker (Silicos), Zsolt Zsoldos (SimBioSys), Paul Hawkins (OpenEye Scientific Software), François Delfaud (MEDIT), Anatoly Ruvinsky (University of Kansas), Robin Taylor (CCDC), Eric Jamois (Strand Life Sciences), David Gilmour (Tacit), Alex Heiphetz (Delta L Training), Frank Guerino (TraverseIT), Salvatore Alesci (Wyeth), Darius Dziuda (CCSU), Laszlo Boros (Sidmap) Fred Cohen (Fast Track Systems), Alex Tropsha (UNC), Dimitris Agrafiotis, (Johnson & Johnson), Carl Elkin (Schering-Plough)

Poster Session
We will be running poster sessions in the evenings at the meeting with themes: knowledge management (Tuesday), drug design (Wednesday) and drug development and ADMET (Thursday). This option is available to all meeting attendees. Please send your abstract and biography of ca. 300-500 words each to eCheminfo -(at)- douglasconnect.com for approval.

Program Brochure:

Download eChemProgramBrynMawr07-web2.PDF

More information at http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences

June 19, 2007

Brochure for Autumn 2007 eCheminfo Cheminformatics Conference Available

The brochure for the eCheminfo Cheminformatics Conference is now available:

Latest Advances in Drug Discovery & Development
15-19 October 2007
Community of Practice Meeting, Autumn 2007
a joint InnovationWell and eCheminfo InterAction Meeting
Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia
http://www.echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences

Download the brochure as a pdf here:

Download eChemProgramBrynMawr07-web1.PDF

Look forward to seeing you there  - you will not find drug discovery informatics discussions to match these anywhere else in the world this year :)!!

Barry

March 28, 2007

International Cooperation in Predictive Toxicology

A variety of initiatives of relevance to the development of ADME/Toxicology resources of value to supporting improved productivity in drug discovery and development are in progress in different organisations and countries.  There is potential for great benefits for collaboration and alignment between such initiatives so as to support the robust development of the emerging field of predictive toxicology and to advance goals related to heathcare safety and development as expressed in the FDA's Critical Path Initiative in the USA and the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative in Europe.

To further development and progress in this area we are scheduling the following activity:

International Forum & Workshop on Cooperation on ADME/Tox
18-19 October 2007
to take place at the Community of Practice Meeting, Autumn 2007
a joint InnovationWell and eCheminfo InterAction Meeting
Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia
http://www.echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences

This forum and workshop will have an agenda developed by workshop leaders to address ways forward for international cooperation and including discussion of the following topics:

  • latest advances in QSAR and ADME/Tox methodologies and resources
  • impact of government and regulatory policy and legislation in the US and Europe
  • potential and barriers for replacing animal testing by alternative approaches
  • actions for data integration and knowledge sharing between initiatives
  • the role of semantic web approaches in uniting structured data from multiple resources
  • the role of natural language processing for processing unstructured information
  • extraction of data from the scientific literature
  • methods and procedures for secure testing of commercial data that could be acceptable to industry
  • application of advanced search and agent technologies
  • frameworks for computational model testing and validation
  • impact of knowledge management approaches
  • collaboration and community support structures and environments

The agenda of the forum and workshop will be designed by a set of workshop leaders so as to maximise interaction, discussion, issue resolution, and action plans for cooperation.  In addition to presentations on latest developments, workshop activities will address specific challenges to progress in the field and areas where collaboration can support integration and alignment of programs and resources and reduction of duplication.  An Innovation Cafe format will be used in which the group will define a scenario in which optimum confidence in predictive toxicology methods has been reached and will then prioritize steps for achieving that goal.  The resulting roadmap should provide action plans where cooperation between initiatives can accelerate the contribution of predictive toxicology methods to enhanced confidence in safety of new healthcare products and progressing the goal of reduction and replacement of animal testing by computational methods.  Virtual communication and collaboration approaches will be used pre- and post-event to maximise the benefit of the workshop.

Workshop leaders are being invited from the US and Europe and will include representatives from industry, government and academia.

Barry Hardy

Community of Practice Manager

October 26, 2006

eCheminfo Membership & Workshop Activity for 2007

During November I will be planning the 2007 programs for the eCheminfo Advanced Training Week in Oxford and the InterAction Meeting in Bryn Mawr.  Please contact me with your interests and proposals!

Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Design & Planning Methods
a Hands-on 5 Day eCheminfo Advanced Training Workshop Week
June 25-29, Chemical Research Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Latest Advances in Drug Discovery & Development
eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting
15-18 October 2007, Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Themes: Screening, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design, Toxicology, Structural Biology, Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics

eCheminfo Gold membership
This entitles members to access eCheminfo meeting proceedings including audio, access to our Executive Insights reports from meeting and community of practice activities, and additional member discounts on meeting and training registration fees. 

Download eCheminfo2007MembershipForm.pdf

Barry Hardy

October 04, 2006

Could we take a Community Approach to Comparing Virtual Screening Methods?

John Irwin at UCSF, I and others working in the area of drug discovery have had several discussions and email exchanges on the topic of the performance and comparison of different virtual screening and docking methods on different targets and problems. 

The eCheminfo network supports community of practice activities, i.e., it is intended to support the activities of a group of people who bond together to share knowledge on good, better, and best practices, to learn skills from each other, share experiences, and engage in a process of collective learning.  It potentially then could be a neutral environment for supporting coordination on practice activities, such as the difficult area of comparative study in screening and docking.

We thought it would be useful to summarise some ideas on supporting greater collaboration on such work and to invite comments and discussion which we have done below.

Please contribute to the discussion and add your comments on the Cheminfostream Blog or John’s Docking.org blog.  (We can also be reached via email at barry.hardy [at] douglasconnect.com and jji [at] cgl.ucsf.edu.)  We look forward to your input.

Barry Hardy

Could we take a Community Approach to Comparing Virtual Screening Methods?

After twenty years of undeniable progress, molecular docking seems to have plateaued. A recent paper by Tirado-Rives and Jorgensen [1] dashes some of the few hopes we had left by showing that conformational energetics alone make it impossible to rank order diverse compounds in high throughput virtual screening. In a Perspective in the same issue [2], Leach, Shoichet and Pieshoff summarize the stagnating state of the art that is docking, and suggest a pragmatic way forward, through measurement and benchmarking. Again in the same issue, a laborious evaluation of 10 docking programs, using 37 scoring functions was applied to seven protein types for three tasks: binding mode prediction, virtual screening for lead identification, and rank-ordering by affinity for lead optimization [3]. Among some encouraging results and upbeat analysis, the paper makes a number of worrying observations, including that "high fidelity in the reproduction of observed binding poses did not automatically impart success in virtual screening". Moreover, for eight diverse systems, "no statistically significant relationship existed between docking scores and ligand affinity."

The physics of protein-ligand binding is clearly both important, and challenging. The NIH sponsored workshop described by Leach, Shoichet and Pieshoff [4] called for more high quality data to be made available for benchmarking, and, "well developed testing sets to be evaluated with all available technology, without barriers, if we are to see forward rather than lateral growth in the field."

Most efforts to compare docking methods in "apples-to-apples" comparisons have been plagued by one methodological weakness or another. For example, a common criticism is that the "experts" running the program are more familiar with one program than another. Criticisms of unfair bias due to past or ongoing association with a particular software group are frequent, particularly from the developers whose software performed worst. Numerous criticisms are also levelled at how success is judged, how the test sets are compiled, in fact, nearly everything about docking comparison studies can be criticised.

In the spirit of collaboration, and in an effort to move the field forward as advocated by NIGMS, we are suggesting here an "open source" initiative to compare docking methodologies (Our use of “open source” here is to the methods used to carry out comparisions of methods, not whether the source code used is “open source”). We propose that a form of peer review, as hosted on a wiki and supplemented by workshop activity or virtual conference-based discussion, be applied at all stages of a fair "competition", including the design of the experiment, collection of the data, running of programs, and the analysis of the results. The goal is not to show up one program or another as a winner or loser, but to honestly and fairly compare methods, allowing all reasonable criticisms to be raised during the process, so that the entire field can move forward.

The UCSF group are now offering a dataset which they recently compiled from the literature, in which they have attempted to design a database of actives and challenging decoys for 40 diverse targets [5]. They are also actively soliciting experimental test data from pharma. They know it is a challenge to get this data released, even for projects that are no longer active, but they are asking for it nonetheless, for the benefit of the field.

In the upcoming eCheminfo Community of Practice meeting in Bryn Mawr we have scheduled a forum (16.00 Tuesday 17th October) to discuss whether such an "open source" project to benchmark docking programs is of interest, and if so, how to best move forward. We think this is an auspicious time for such a project, and we hope you (and your company or organization) do too. The world has benefited enormously from other "open source" projects, such as Linux, MySQL, wikipedia, and so on. We think this is docking's time. What do you think?

As certainly not everyone interested in this topic can be present at the meeting in Bryn Mawr, and time there is limited, it would be good to have some exchange of ideas virtually in our run up to the meeting and beyond.

Barry Hardy (eCheminfo Community of Practice) and John Irwin (UCSF, Docking.org)

References
[1] Tirado-Rives & Jorgensen, Contribution of Conformer Focusing to the Uncertainty in Predicting Free Energies for Protein-Ligand Binding, J. Med. Chem, 2006, 59,5880-5884.
[2] Leach, Shoichet, Pieshoff, Prediction of Protein-Ligand Interactions. Docking and Scoring: Successes and Gaps., J Med Chem, 2006, 49, 5851-5855.
[3] Warren et al, A Critical Assessment of Docking Programs and Scoring Functions, J Med Chem, 2006, 49, 5912-5931.
[4] http://www.nigms.nih.gov/News/Reports/DockingMeeting022406.htm
[5] Huang, Shoichet, Irwin, Benchmarking Sets for Molecular Docking, J. Med. Chem, 2006, in press.

March 02, 2006

Training Week - Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Design & Planning Methods

We are holding a hands-on 5 Day eCheminfo Advanced Training Week for chemists and informaticians working in drug discovery the week of 3-7 July 2006 at the Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.  The week will consist of interactive pragmatic workshops led by leading experts and industry practitioners.  We will work through in detail and discuss practical examples, methods and emerging techniques.

Topics to be covered include Virtual Screening & Docking, Structure-based Drug Design, Reaction Planning & Library Design, Latest advances in ADME & Predictive Toxicology, Data Analysis & Visualisation and Integration of Cheminformatics & Bioinformatics Tools & Data.

These workshops are aimed to provide a set of stimulating workshops using latest advanced modelling techniques of relevance to chemists, life scientists and modellers working in drug discovery.  Participants should return to their labs with new ideas, best practices and software experiences to maximise productivity in their own drug discovery research activities.

Workshop groups will study problems with hands-on examples using leading-edge software and discuss complex issues highlighted by examples and case studies presented by instructors.  Software packages and an IT classroom will be used by instructors and participants to work through the problems. Participants may propose problems and issues to the faculty ahead of the workshop week and can also bring their own laptops to test software on their own test problems.

Participants will have ample opportunity to discuss their perspectives and criticisms of the methods studied and should take-away key nuggets of understanding from these intensive sessions.

Program includes the following workshops:

In silico Library Enumeration of Synthetically Feasible Libraries
Workshop Instructors: Gyorgy Pirok, Chief Technology Officer, ChemAxon
and Daniel Butler, Scientific Executive, Inhibox

Reaction Modelling and Prediction of Reaction Thermodynamics & Kinetics
Workshop Instructor: David Gallagher CAChe, BioSciences Group, Fujitsu

Applications of Filtering and Similarity in Virtual Screening
Workshop Instructor: Paul Hawkins, OpenEye Scientific Software

User Perspective Evaluation of Virtual Screening Methods

Workshop Instructor: David Lloyd, Hitachi Professor, Trinity College Dublin

Advances in Virtual Screening and Structure-based Drug Design
Workshop Instructors: Jas Gata-Aura and Gerd Rather, Schrodinger

Data Analysis & Visualisation in Discovery Chemistry & Biology
Workshop Instructor: Lennart Eriksson, Umetrics

Predictive Toxicology
Workshop Instructors: Mark Cronin, Liverpool John Moores University and Scott McDonald, Lhasa Limited

Discovery Data Mining using Data Pipelining
Workshop Instructor: Rob Brown, Scitegic

More details on the workshops can be found on the eCheminfo website at http://echeminfo.colayer.net/COMTY_training

Details on Accomodation and Registration follow here...

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December 15, 2005

New Release of Materials on eCheminfo on Drug Discovery Innovation, Proteins, Screening, Web Services, Quantum Biochemistry, Graph Mining and the current Poster Session

We have now opened up the new release of seminar and discussion materials in the Program area of the eCheminfo web site at http://echeminfo.colayer.net/ including new materials from the Autumn InterAction meetings.

Please note that further release of materials from 2005 will be forthcoming in subsequent releases and that all 2003 and 2004 seminars are in the process of being moved to the Program areas, so watch out for further news releases here.

List of eCheminfo Seminars currently available in Program areas for Drug Discovery Innovation, Proteins, Screening, Web Services, Quantum Biochemistry, Graph Mining and the current Poster Session:

Drug Discovery Innovation
Structure-Based Design of Allosteric Protein Kinase Inhibitors, Jeff Wiseman (Locus Pharmaceuticals)
An Interactive Environment for Multiparameter Optimization, James H Wikel (Coalesix)
Computational Models are Needed to Make Drugs Safer and More Effective, G. Scott Lett (Bioanalytics Group)
Metabolomics for White Biotechnology, Lars M. Blank (University of Dortmund and the Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS), Dortmund )
Analysis Based on Molecular Diversity, Steve Boyer (IBM)
Is there any Sense in the Semantic Web?, Jim Cook (Volutio)

Proteins
Amyloid beta-protein oligomerization and Alzheimer’s disease, David Teplow (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)
Direct observation of protein folding, misfolding and prion-like conformational infectivity, Feng Ding (University of North Carolina)
Detection of Intermediate States of Cell Adhesion Proteins Using Discrete Molecular Dynamics (DMD) Simulations Constrained By Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Hydrogen Exchange (HX) Data, Richard Dixon (University of North Carolina)
All-atom protein folding with stochastic optimization methods, Wolfgang Wenzel (University of Karslruhe)
Folding@Home: Using worldwide desktop grid computing to break fundamental
barriers in molecular simulation, Vijay Pande (Stanford University)
Design of a folding inhibitor of the HIV-1 Protease, Guido Tiana (University of Milano)
Simulations of peptide inhibitors of Amyloid-beta fibrillogenesis, Joan-Emma Shea (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Folding and aggregation: A physics-based all-atom modeling, Yong Duan (University of California Davis)
Application of discrete molecular dynamics to protein folding and aggregation, Sergey Buldyrev (Yeshiva University)
Dewetting in nanoscale hydrophobic plates collapse and multi-domain protein folding, Ruhong Zhou (IBM)
Automated Methods for identifying Structural Motifs: Helix Couples in the Globins, Marc Fasnacht (Columbia University)
Reconstructing evasive protein states using NMR and molecular modeling: the Focal Adhesion Kinase story, Nikolay V. Dokholyan (University of North Carolina)
Protein modelling: simulating the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding, Jed Pitera (IBM)
Determinants of Functionality in the Ubiquitin Conjugating Enzyme Family, Peter Winn (EMBL, Heidelberg)

Screening   
Molecular Docking as a Virtual Screening Tool, Renee DesJarlais (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC)
Exploiting protein-specific information in docking, Willem Nissink (Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre)
You can't find what's not there: the importance and the pitfalls of multiple representations of molecules in dockable databases, John Irwin (UCSF)
Pattern Recognition and Grid Computing in Drug Discovery, Graham Richards (University of Oxford)
The Issue of Protein Flexibility in Docking-Based Virtual Screening, Xavier Barril (Vernalis)
Beyond ligand flexibility: improvement and validation of rDock for Structure-Based Drug Design, David Morley (Enspiral Discovery Ltd)
Structure-based identification of GPCR ligands by high-throughput docking, Didier Rognan (University of Strasbourg)

Web Services
A Web-based Chemoinformatics System for Drug Discovery, Brett Tounge (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC)
Web enabling technology for the design, enumeration, optimization and tracking of compound libraries, Brad Feuston (Merck)
ZINC web services - providing 3D structures of purchasable compounds for virtual screening to humans and machines, John Irwin (UCSF)
Investigating chemical trends in the context of ligand-protein complexes by using on-line data analysis directly on the web, Dimitris Dimitropoulos (European Bioinformatics Institute)
The Representation of Chemical Structures and its Application to Property Prediction, Johann Gasteiger (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg)
Open Archives as a Route for the Capture, Dissemination and Access to Chemical Information, Simon Coles (University of Southampton)
Identification of biological units in protein crystals, Eugene Krissinel (European Bioinformatics Institute)
Upstream analysis of gene expression data: Reasoning microarray experiments, Alexander Kel (BIOBASE GmbH)
A Web Interface to Neural Network Prediction of 1H NMR Chemical Shifts, Joao Aires de Sousa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Molecular similarity searching via a freely accessible web interface using the MOLPRINT 2D approach, Andreas Bender (Cambridge University)
Computer-aided prediction of biological activity spectra as a way to creating new effective and safe medicines, Vladimir Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Rus. Acad. Med. Sci.)
MSDmotif: A Database Search and Retrieval System for the Analysis and Viewing of Protein Structure Motifs, Adel Golovin (EBI)

Quantum Biochemistry
Use of Quantum Mechanics in the Process of Drug Discovery, Ramkumar Rajamani (Bristol-Myers Squibb)
Semiempirical Comparative Binding Energy Analysis (SE- COMBINE) of a series of Trypsin Inhibitors, Martin Peters (Penn State)
On the art of computing of the Infra Red Spectra of molecules in the condensed phase, Paul Tavan (University of Munich)
Applications in Computational Quantum Biochemistry, Alessandro Curioni (IBM Zurich)
Kinetic isotope effects for enzyme-catalysed methyl transfer, Ian Williams (University of Bath)
Determination of the protonation states of the key aspartates in β-Secretase through QM/MM X-ray structure refinement, Ning Yu (Pennsylvania State University)
Computational Studies of Protein-Ligand and Protein-Solvent Interactions, Kaushik Raha (UCSF)
Quantum Mechanics for Drug Discovery, Lance Westerhoff & Ken Merz (QuantumBio)
Analysing enzyme activity and specificity by QM/MM modelling, Adrian Mulholland (University of Bristol)
Simulations of phosphoryl transfer reactions using new hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical methods, Darrin York (University of Minnesota)
Towards quantum mechanical force fields for biomolecules, Richard Bryce (University of Manchester)
The application of QM/MM techniques to model enzyme mechanisms and protein-ligand interactions, Harald Lanig (Erlangen University)

Graph Mining
Lazy-Structure-Activity-Relationships (lazar) for the in-silico Prediction of Chemical Carcinogenicity, Christoph Helma (University of Freiburg)
Graph-Theoretic Procedures for Searching Databases of Molecular Structures, Peter Willett (University of Sheffield)
Finding Discriminative Substructures Using Elaborate Chemical Representation, Joost N. Kok (Leiden University)
Alignment-free Potential Pharmacophore-Point Descriptors for "Informed" Similarity Searching, Gisbert Schneider (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University)
Comparing Molecule Similarity Codings - Vectorial versus Structural Coding for ADME/Tox Prediction, Joerg Kurt Wegner (Tibotec BVBA)

Posters:
FlexScreen: Docking with Receptor Flexibility
B. Fischer, H. Merlitz, W. Wenzel, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Investigating chemical trends in the context of ligand-protein complexes by using on-line data analysis directly on the web
Dimitris Dimitropoulos, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
The e-Malaria Project: Tools for Schools - An interactive computer aided drug discovery
Robert Gledhill, Sarah Kent, Jonathon Essex and Jeremy G. Frey*, School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, UK
Studying the long-range structure of flexible peptides by small-angle X-ray scattering and molecular dynamics
Bojan Zagrovic (1)*, Jan Lipfert (2), Guha Jayachandran (3), Eric J. Sorin (3), Ian S. Millett (3), Wilfred F. van Gunsteren (1), Sebastian Donaich (2) & Vijay S. Pande (3)
(1) Physical Chemistry Institute, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
(2) Department of Physics, Stanford University, USA
(3) Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, USA
In silico Characterization of Stickler Syndrome Causing Human Collagen Proteins
K. Sivakumar (1), S. Balaji (1) and G. Radhakrishnan (2);
(1) Department of Chemistry, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa MahaVidyalaya (Deemed University), Enathur, Kanchipuram  631 561, Tamilnadu, India
(2) EXCEL and Polymer Science Labs, Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai  600 020, Tamilnadu, India
Reducing the Synthetic Burdens of Lead Structure Optimization: A Novel Software-Aided Approach
Karim Kassam, Ryan Sasaki, and Michel Hachey, Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., 110 Yonge Street, 14th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5C1T4 Canada
Improving Enrichment with eHiT’s Scoring Function Training Utility
Darryl Reid, Zsolt Zsoldos, Aniko Simon, and Peter Johnson, SimBioSys Inc. Canada
Open Babel and the Blue Obelisk, Open Standards and Open Software in Chemistry
Geoffrey Hutchison, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Barry Hardy
eCheminfo Community of Practice Manager

November 03, 2005

Program/Schedule for European eCheminfo InterAction meeting (9,10 November 2005)

The European eCheminfo InterAction meeting "Applications of Cheminformatics and Chemical Modelling to Drug Discovery" takes place in Basel, Switzerland next week (November 9-10).  The schedule with list of presentations and discussion sessions is available at:
http://echeminfo.colayer.net/files/SpeakerTopcSchedule-IA05-Basel-v5.pdf

The eCheminfo meeting runs concurrently with our InnovationWell Community meeting; registrants are welcome to attend sessions from either program.  Further details, such as abstracts and speaker bios, can be viewed in the Program areas of either the http://innovationwell.net/ or the echeminfo.com websites.

We will be closing registrations shortly, so please let us know quickly if you'd like to come.  Register through the websites or contact Nicki Douglas (nicki.douglas at douglasconnect.com, +41 61 851 04 61)

And if you can't make the meeting, you can access the recordings and presentation materials if you become a member of one of these communities. You will also have access to all previous sessions (including those from last month's US InterAction meetings in Philadelphia being released this month).

Best regards,
Barry Hardy
Community of Practice Manager
Douglas Connect, Switzerland
tel: +41 61 851 0170

September 23, 2005

eCheminfo and InnovationWell Autumn 2005 Program

I summarise below the list of sessions with over 100 top speakers and discussion leaders for the program listing for the upcoming Autumn InterAction Meetings taking place in Philadelphia and Basel. Please add a traceback or link for other like-minded folk to find!

I also provide an electronic brochure for download here for the InnovationWell Autumn Program on Knowledge-based Innovation in Life Science Product Development:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/theferryman/files/InnovationWell-ProgramAutumn05.PDF

And the equivalent eCheminfo brochure on Drug Discovery:
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/theferryman/files/eCheminfo-ProgramAutumn05.pdf

Note: The poster sessions will be run as electronic poster sessions using tabletop spaces, a wireless network and Internet facilities at the meetings, in addition to virtual access through the website, i.e., the posters will be electronic but the access can be face-to-face or virtual. You can participate in person and virtually in the poster sessions.  We can supply nourishment and refreshments locally; remote participants may have to order out! [We also expect, subject to on-site testing, to have live conference call capabilities for remote participating members to join local discussions.]  Anyone interested in presenting such an "electronic poster" should directly contact us via email at innovationwell at douglasconnect.com

Look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia or Basel!

Barry Hardy
Community of Practice Manager
Douglas Connect
http://douglasconnect.com/
+41 61 851 0170 (office)

InnovationWell & eCheminfo InterAction Meetings
Philadelphia, US, 11-12 October 2005 and Basel, Switzerland, 9-10 November
List of Sessions with Speakers & Schedule (InterAction Autumn Meetings)
http://innovationwell.net/ and http://echeminfo.com/

Registration to attend the meetings or to access virtually is available through the websites or through contacting Nicki Douglas [nicki.douglas at douglasconnect.com]

…PROGRAM LISTING CONTINUING IN FULL POSTING…..

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August 11, 2005

eCheminfo Autumn 2005 Program Brochure - Cheminformatics & Modeling Applications in Drug Discovery

Here is a copy of the Program Brochure for our eCheminfo Autumn 2005 Program on Cheminformatics & Modeling Applications in Drug Discovery including our US InterAction Meeting in Philadelphia 11,12 October 2005 and our European meeting in Basel 9,10 November 2005:

Download eCheminfo-ProgramAutumn05.pdf

Barry Hardy
eCheminfo Community of Practice Manager
Douglas Connect, Switzerland
+41 61 851 0170 (office)

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