QSAR - Call for (Q)SAR Papers for Washington ACS

I am organizing a symposium for this fall's ACS meeting in Washington DC
(Aug 28-Sep 1, 2005) entitled:

(Q)SAR in Today's Agrochemistry

The discovery and development of any biologically active small molecule
necessarily entails biological or biochemical testing of candidate compounds
and relating the results obtained from such testing back to chemical
structure, i.e., establishing structure activity relationships (SARs). This
symposium will embrace application of qualitative as well as quantitative
analytical methods to agrochemical problems in particular and to in vivo (or
ex vivo) assays in general, as well as to lead identification (triage)
techniques. Talks related to the design of primary and secondary screens
will also be appropriate, particularly as they relate to the ability to
subsequently carry out meaningful SAR analysis.

Note that many of the difficulties encountered in constructing
structure-activity relationships using agrochemical data are also
encountered by those in pharmaceutical discovery and development who work,
as is more and more common, with whole cell assays. This includes many of
the environmental, toxicological and ADME screens now in use in both
industries. The symposium is being organized to provide a forum for those
with experience in this general realm to share what they have learned with
those coming from a more enzyme-based SAR background.

Papers involving agrochemical applications are especially encouraged, but
any discussion of the challenges that arise in similar applications - e.g.,
whole cell and intact animal assay systems - are invited as well. Please
submit abstracts directly to the OASYS system:

  http://oasys.acs.org/acs/230nm/agro/papers/index.cgi

The deadline for submissions is 26 April 2005.

Bob Clark
Tripos, Inc.
1699 S. Hanley Rd.
St. Louis MO 63144

bclark,,tripos.com

PS: An earlier attempt to post this seemed to bounce and I never received
the message from the list. The error mesage I did receive was somewhat
ambiguous, however, so it may have gotten through after all. My apologies if
this comes through as a duplicate posting to the Society.
Received on 2005-04-01 - 14:01 GMT