QSAR - Fw: Pacifichem - abstracts closing on 13 April

Osman F. Güner, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Cheminformatics and Rational Drug Design
Accelrys Inc., 858-799-5341
osman^^accelrys.com, http://www.accelrys.com
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Dave Winkler <dave.winkler..csiro.au>
03/23/2005 02:33 PM

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Pacifichem - abstracts closing on 13 April

Hi, Osman,

I have been trying to send the following notice to the QSAR Society
mailing list over the past few days but the qsar_society:accelrys.com
address keeps bouncing. Can you please post the announcement on the list?

PACIFICHEM 2005
December 15-20 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii

http://www.pacifichem.org

Pacifichem is one of the world's largest chemical congresses, presenting
in excess of 5000 papers in a diverse range of topics, and attracting top
researchers in many fields of chemistry. It is held in the major hotels
on Waikiki beach. The congress is somewhat unusual as it is made up of a
large number of symposia that have been proposed as hot areas by
researchers. Although it is very large, it is streamed to avoid clashes
between symposia who may have audiences with overlapping interests.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is 13th April 2005; late submissions
will not be accepted.

Symposium number 7 in the Medicinal Chemistry theme is

Complexity and Related Computational Methods in Bioactive Discovery

Many chemical and biological systems are 'complex systems' that exhibit
emergent properties and behaviour often not well modelled by reductionist
approaches. Novel complex systems science tools such as neural networks,
and other agent-based methods, genetic algorithms and genetic programming,
artificial ant colonies, particle swarms, nonlinear methods, knot theory
etc are finding increased application in chemistry and bioactive discovery
and development (drugs and ag/vet agents). This symposium will provide an
opportunity for participants to present their work on these new methods,
and to probe the extent to which a complex systems science (CSS) approach
to bioactive discovery is useful for developing new leads. It will
challenge participants to explore other CSS methods in modelling chemical
and biological systems and developing novel bioactive agents. The
symposium will also probe the overlap between traditional computational
approaches to drug discovery and development, ADMET modelling, and related
fields and methods of complexity. The symposium is very broad based and
will accept any papers relating to computational approaches to bioactive
design, discovery and development, and complexity methods applied to
chemistry and bioactive discovery.

    Invited speaker Indicative topic

Dimitris Agrafiotis (J&J) Self-organization and drug discovery
 
Gerry Maggiora (Arizona) Rough sets, multi-sets, information
theory and mutual information
Bernard Testa (Lausanne) Emergence-dissolvence, molecules as
complex adaptive systems
Tim Clark (Erlangen) Non-linear mapping of physical property space
John Finnigan (CSIRO) Overview of Complex Systems
Frank Burden (Scimetrics) Agent-based modelling applications in
chemistry and biology
Prof. Yuzong Chen (NUS) Machine learning and data mining.
Monty Kier (VCU) Cellular automata modelling of ligand
diffusion on proteins
Val Gillett (Sheffield) Multiobjective optimization and genetic
programming
Tudor Oprea Interface between chemical and biological
complex systems
Martyn Ford (Portsmouth) Complexity in drug design
John Gasteiger (Erlangen) Molecular evolution using genetic
algorithms
Jean-François Truchon (Merck)Deterministic algorithms for reagent
selection
Peter Stadler (Leipzig) Functional organization in molecular systems
 
Nigel Richards (Florida) Genetic algorithms in docking,
computational enzymology
Greg Dewey (Keck Inst) Complexity in biology
Hideaki Suzuki Biologically-mimetic computing

Contributed papers are very welcome. All delegates wishing to present a
paper (invited or contributed, oral or poster) must submit an abstract
on-line. Please read the guidelines first. The electronic abstract system
can then be accessed via the Online Abstract Login button on the web site.

I look forward to meeting you in Honolulu next December

--
Cheers,
Dave
Prof. David A. Winkler FRACI CChem CPChem    Email: dave.winkler],[csiro.au 
CSIRO Centre for Complexity in Drug Design      Voice: 61-3-9545-2477
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), and Pacifichem 2005 in Honolulu December 15-20 (
http://www.pacifichem.org).