Reminder - Fifth International Conference on Chemical Structures

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 !!!!! REMINDER !!!!! REMINDER !!!!
 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CHEMICAL STRUCTURES
 Sunday, June 6 through Thursday, June 10, 1999
 Leeuwenhorst Congress Center, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
 Sponsors:
 Chemical Structure Association (CSA)
 Chemistry-Information Division of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh)
 Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
 New Swiss Chemical Society (NSCS)
 Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV)
 Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Information Group (RSC)
 With the Fifth International Conference on Chemical Structures we continue
 this well established conference series that begun in 1973 as a workshop on
 "Computer Representation and Manipulation of Chemical Information"
 sponsored by the NATO Advanced Study Institute and thereafter was held
 under its new name in 1987, 1990, 1993, and 1996.  The 1999 Conference
 should continue the high standard of technical presentations and
 discussions that characterized all previous conferences.
 The Leeuwenhorst Congress Center in Noordwijkerhout is a modern
 comprehensive center near Leiden in a quiet rural setting close to the
 dunes and the beach. The Center is located between Amsterdam and Den Haag
 and readily accessible from major European cities by train or automobile.
 The conference will consist of several plenary sessions and an extended
 poster session; all submitted papers will be reviewed by a Scientific
 Review Committee.  Additionally, there will be a new-product review session
 and exhibition featuring both commercially available software and databases
 as well as software from research projects. Because of significant
 additions to the facilities at the Congress Center a large area (Atrium)
 adjacent to the lecture hall will be used for the exhibition and posters,
 open on Monday and Tuesday from 9 AM to 10 PM.
 Note:  Detailed information about the conference, including "Call for
 Papers" and registration, will be available at the end of October on our
 website (through ChemWeb) and on several listservers.  All correspondence
 for this conference will be in electronic format.
 Scientific Review Committee:
 Professor Johann Gasteiger, University of Erlangen - Nurnberg
 Dr. Vincent van Geerestein, N.V.Organon
 Dr. Guenter Grethe, MDL Information Systems, Inc.
 Dr. Gerald Maggiora, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc.
 Professor Peter Willett, University of Sheffield
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 Topics that are likely to be presented at the conference are listed below,
 but we welcome contributions in any aspect of the computer handling of
 chemical structure information.
 Combinatorial chemistry and molecular diversity
 	library design and method validation
 	manipulation of large libraries of structures and associated data
 	virtual libraries, applications and new methods
 	clustering and diversity analysis
 	synthetic methodologies
 New media and methodologies
 	web technology and its effect on chemical information
 	electronic publishing
 	exchange formats
 Molecular modeling and managing three-dimensional databases
 	use of modeling in new compound discovery
 	computational methods
 	representation and searching of conformationally flexible compounds
 	molecular similarity
 Chemical synthesis
 	representation and searching of chemical reactions
 	prediction of chemical syntheses and reaction products
 	post-search manipulation of large hitlists
 Others
 representation and manipulation of biomacromolecules, polymers, and
 inorganic compounds, including ceramic and composites
 structure-activity and structure-property relationships
 de novo and structure-based design
 prediction of molecular properties
 new algorithms for searching and managing chemical structures
 structure elucidation
 If you have any questions please free to contact me at the addresses shown
 below:
 Dr. Guenter Grethe
 MDL Information Systems, Inc.
 14600 Catalina Street
 San Leandro, CA 94577
 USA
 +1 510 895-1313 (ext.1430) [voice]
 +1 510 614-3638 [fax]
 guenter-0at0-mdli.com