[QSAR] Erratum Re: THE CHEMINFORMATICS AND QSAR SOCIETY: New name for our Society

[List for Members of QSAR and Modeling Society]

With apologies to the confusion that this may have created, the earlier message contained the wrong name of the society in the body of the text. This is, quite simply, an error due to the fact that both Alex and I were multi-tasking while we were preparing the message; and by mistake of the alternative names of the Society from an earlier version of the email survived our revision(s). 
 
Thanks to Stefan Balaz, Don Boyd and Hugo Kubinyi for correcting (and understanding) our unintentional error. 
 
Again, with apologies to everyone... Alex & Tudor
 
Below is the revised and correct announcement. 
 
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Dear QSAR and Modeling Society Members:
 
The purpose of this email is to inform you that after many deliberations among the Society Board members, which took place in the past 18 months, the Board decided to rename the QSAR and Modeling Society to: 
 
THE CHEMINFORMATICS AND QSAR SOCIETY. 
 
This change is the third name change in the history of the Society. As you may know, when formed in 1989, it was initially named "The QSAR Group", and the late Phil Magee was its first Chair. In 1995, the Society changed its name to " The QSAR and Modeling Society".  See also http://www.qsar.org/aboutsoc/histlist.htm.  We believe that changing the name of the Society is a healthy event that reflects the changing nature of the research conducted by the growing number of the Society members.
 
The subject of the name change was discussed at two recent major meetings where many current and prospective members of the Society were present: 
 
* The "Chemoinformatics in Europe: Research and Teaching" Workshop in Obernai (http://infochim.u-strasbg.fr/chemoinformatics/index.php) 
and the 
* EuroQSAR (http://www.euro-qsar2006.org/index.php).  
 
The participants of both meetings voted in favor of having Cheminformatics in the name of the Society. 
 
We feel that at this time we should take into account a strong support for Cheminformatics both in the US (NIH RoadMap) and Europe (Obernai) as well as the history of the society and strong interest of its current members in furthering the field of QSAR. 
 
We look forward to working with you to further the mission of our Society as the only international society focused on advancing the cheminformatics and QSAR research discipline.
 
Tudor I. Oprea
Chair, Cheminformatics and QSAR Society,
www.qsar.org ( http://www.qsar.org/ )
and
Alex Tropsha
Vice-Chair, Cheminformatics and QSAR Society,
 
 

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