Chemical Informatics Letters

Volume 1, Issue 3; September 2000

Editor: Jonathan M Goodman

News:

ASIS 2000: Knowledge Innovations: The American Society for Information Science (ASIS) is holding its annual conference, Saturday 11th - Thursday 16th November 2000, in Chicago.
Chemistry and the Internet: ChemInt 2000: This conference, organised by Henry Rzepa, Stephen Heller, and Wolf-Dietrich Ihlenfeldt, will examine current and future technologies and applications for chemistry and the internet. It will run 23th - Tuesday 26th September 2000, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
MSI to buy Oxford Molecular's Software Business: MSI are buying Oxford Molecular. This will strengthen MSI's expertise in bioinformatics and in cheminformatics products. Recently, MSI has also bought Synopsys Scientific Systems.
ChemWeb PrePrint Server: A preprint server for chemistry. Does this fit in with the culture of chemistry? There is a successful physics preprint server, which covers physics, and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience. The USA Department of Energy also runs a preprint network for physics, materials, chemistry and some biological subjects.
NFCR Center for Computational Drug Design: Oxford University has announced the creation of a Center for Computational Drug Design. Professor Graham Richards will be the director.
Derek: toxicology prediction: Using a knowledge base, DEREK predicts toxicology information from molecular structures.
An Introduction to Structural Bioinformatics: This course which covers sequence analysis, database searching and molecular modelling applied to proteins will be run at York, Monday 11th - Thursday 14th September 2000.

Web Sites:

Chemical Informatics at Indiana University: The School of Informatics in Bloomington (Indiana University) offers an MS in Chemical Informatics. Core courses include organic chemistry. A wide range of electives are available, including C++ programming and many chemistry courses.
UK-QSAR and ChemoInformatics Group: This group organises twice yearly meetings. The web site includes a bulletin board.
Professor Frank Hollinger: Professor Frank Hollinger runs computational chemistry and chemoinformatics courses at the Stevens Institute of Technology.