MGMS EC-1 Announcement
FIRST ELECTRONIC MOLECULAR GRAPHICS AND MODELLING SOCIETY CONFERENCE
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The First Electronic Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society
Conference (MGMS EC-1) will be held on the Internet (the Net) and
World Wide Web (the Web) from Oct 7-18, 1996. The conference
is sponsored by Elsevier and the Molecular Graphics and Modelling
Society and will be co-organized by Graham Richards, Art Olson,
Rod Hubbard and Barry Hardy.
MGMS EC-1 will be a fully international event open to all members of
the scientific community and will cover a broad range of disciplines
related to molecular modelling, graphics and simulation methods
and applications.
Conference subject areas are: Protein Structure; Membranes and Membrane
Proteins; Bioinformatics; Computational Nanotechnology; Protein Folding;
Modelling of In Vivo Activity; Knowledge-based Library Design;
Surface Science; Host-guest interactions; Carbohydrates;
Enzyme Mechanisms; Conformational Analysis; Nucleic Acids;
Quantum Chemistry; Car-Parrinello Methods and Applications;
Structure-based Design; Visualization; and Perspectives.
Each subject area has a section convener who will screen
abstracts sent by authors for suitability. Authors can opt to submit
a non-permanent presentation like a normal conference poster or
a presentation which will be refereed and considered for publication
in the Journal of Molecular Graphics. Referees will be appointed
by the section conveners.
Presentations must be prepared in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML),
graphics (GIF,JPEG) and other web-compatible formats (VRML,Java,PDF)
so that participants can view the papers via the World Wide Web.
Aid and consultation will be provided to participants in the weeks
prior to the event to help them with their presentation
(Email:mgmsorg $#at#$ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk). Further details will be given in
the
authors' guide accessible via the URL: http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/mgms/
During the conference discussions will take place via the Internet
in real-time using a virtual conference centre based on a MOO
(multiple-user domain, object oriented) and via Internet-accessible
electronic mailing lists. Trial sessions for those not familiar with
MOOs will be held before the conference. Before the conference, a
timetable for MOO discussion sessions of each section will be posted.
Since these realtime discussions are an integral part of the
conference, authors will be expected to attend one for their subject;
the right is reserved not to referee submissions by authors who do
not attend one of these sessions.
The Conference will feature a Virtual Trade Center where commercial
vendors, software and hardware developers, consultants, and contractors
will be able to display their goods and services and provide software
demonstrations in return for exhibition fees to support conference
activities. Any potential exhibitors should contact Barry Hardy at
barry $#at#$ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk
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DEADLINES AND DATES
1) DO NOW - The MGMS mailing list
Conference-related news and announcements will be posted regularly
to the MGMS mailing list (http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/hypermail/mgms/).
If you wish to subscribe to the MGMS list send the following
one line message to majordomo $#at#$ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk:
subscribe mgms $#at#$ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk your_email $#at#$ address
your_name
2) DO NOW - Registration
The deadline for registration is Sept 15th 1996. Early registration is
strongly encouraged to aid the efficient operation of the conference
including the establishment of timely access to the conference.
If you intend to participate in MGMS EC-1 please use the registration
form accessible via http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/mgms/
which is available for electronic registration. The
registration will be used to construct a registrant database
for the conference which will generate the conference mailing list and
handle assignment of userids and passwords.
In addition it is necessary to pay for registration via ordinary
means: The conference fee will be 35 pounds sterling (50 US dollars)
with a special rate for students of 20 pounds sterling (30 US
dollars). A copy of a suitable student identification or a letter from
the supervisor will be required to be charged at the lower rate.
Registration payments can be accepted by credit card,
direct bank transfer, cheque or bank draft.
Regardless of method of payment we ask you to
supply accompanying correspondence with your complete name,
address, fax and phone number, and email address which
should be mailed directly to:
Dr. Barry Hardy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory,
University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK
Payment Instructions:
a) Credit Card
We can currently accept Visa, Mastercard, Switch or JCB.
We cannot yet accept American Express as our application with
them has still to be processed.
Please send your credit card type, number and expiration date
via regular mail to:
Dr. Barry Hardy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory,
University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK
b) Bank Transfer
Your payment can be made in sterling by direct bank transfer
into the folowing account:
Account Number: 20-6518 50772712
Account Name: Greenlea Communications
Bank: Barclays Bank, Oxford City Centre Branch,
P.O. Box 333, Oxford, OX1 3HS, UK
--Please ensure your full name is listed with the transfer details.
--You are responsible for any bank charges associated with the
transfer from your bank.
--Please notify us directly of your transfer payment.
3) Cheque/Bank Draft
Cheques or bank orders (in pounds or dollars) should be made out to
Greenlea Communications and mailed to:
Dr. Barry Hardy, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory,
University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK
Acknowledgement of Registration and Payment:
When you first register at the conference site you should
receive an acknowledgement email with a password and userid.
After receipt of your registration fee you will
receive a further acknowledgement and your userid and password
will be validated to allow access to the conference site
(when it opens).
(Note: Registration payments received during the period July 23-
August 14 will not be immediately processed and acknowledged. They will
be processed as soon after August 14 as possible.)
Academic registrants from economically-disadvantaged countries can
write to Barry Hardy requesting an exemption to the registration fee.
Exemptions will be made on a discretionary basis taking into account
the reasons given for the request and will be dependent on suitable
funds being available. We will consider economically disadvantaged
countries to include those of Eastern Europe, Africa, Central and
South America, Indian sub-continent, etc.
3) DEADLINE for receipt of ABSTRACT.
The deadline for receipt of presentation abstracts is August 1. Email
your abstract directly to the appropriate section convener listed
below. Fuller details of the scope of each section will be given in the
authors' guide accessible via http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/mgms/
Your abstract should be no longer than 300 words. And remember to
state which category of presentation (non-permanent poster or refereed
paper) you wish.
If you are unsure as to which section your abstract is suitable for,
please email a possible section convener or Barry Hardy
(barry $#at#$ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk). Section conveners do have the discretion
to reject abstracts, ask for revisions to an abstract or to send the
abstract to the convener of a more suitable section.
4) DEADLINE for receipt of PRESENTATION
The deadline for receipt of papers and posters is Sept 15th. You
must deposit your text and graphics files at the conference ftp site for
presentation at the conference. Ftp instructions will be provided at the
conference site. Hard copies of final refereed papers
following the format of the Journal of Molecular Graphics
should be sent by Dec 1 to:
Graham Richards, Journal of Molecular Graphics,
Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Lab, Sth Parks Rd,
University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK.
Journal guidelines are posted at
http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/mgms/
Although there is no limit to the graphics authors choose
to display in their conference presentation, the editor
reserves the right to limit the number of free colour
figures in each printed journal article.
5) Refereeing Period
The refereeing period will commence upon completion of the conference.
If you have a presentation at MGMS EC-1 you may be requested to contribute
a refereeing evaluation on another conference presentation. Referee reports
will be due November 15.
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SECTIONS AND SECTION CONVENERS
(Please email section conveners with questions related to
your particular section and presentation. Details on the
sections are accessible via http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/mgms/)
Any general emails (such as registration queries, maillist queries,
HTML queries, password queries, timetable queries, general technical
advice on browsers and graphics, MOO queries, etc.) should be sent to:
mgmsorg $#at#$ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk
1. Protein Structure
Rod Hubbard
University of York, UK
Email:rod $#at#$ yorvic.york.ac.uk
2. Nucleic Acids
David Beveridge and Dennis Sprous
Wesleyan University, USA
Email:bever $#at#$ rose.chem.wesleyan.edu,dsprous $#at#$ rose.chem.wesleyan.edu
3. Membranes and Membrane Proteins
Alan Robinson
University of Oxford, UK
Email:alan $#at#$ bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk
and
Terry Stouch
Bristol-Myers Squibb, USA
Email:stouch $#at#$ dino.bms.com
4. Bioinformatics
Steve Gardner
Oxford Molecular, UK
Email:sgardner $#at#$ oxmol.co.uk
5. Computational Nanotechnology
Al Globus
NASA-Ames, USA
Email:globus $#at#$ nas.nasa.gov
6. Protein Folding
Jeffrey Skolnick
Scripps Institute, USA
Email:skolnick $#at#$ scripps.edu
7. Modelling of In Vivo Activity
Edward Hodgkin
Wyeth-Ayerst Research, USA
Email:hodgkie $#at#$ war.wyeth.com
8. Knowledge-based Library Design
Mike Hann
GlaxoWellcome, UK
Email:mmh1203 $#at#$ ggr.co.uk
9. Surface Science
Donald Brenner
North Carolina State, USA
Email:dwb $#at#$ ripley.mte.ncsu.edu
10. Host-Guest interactions
Jon Essex
Southampton University, UK
Email:J.W.Essex $#at#$ soton.ac.uk
11. Carbohydrates and Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions
Anne Imberty
CNRS, France
Email:imberty $#at#$ nantes.inra.fr
12. Enzyme Mechanisms
Guy Grant
University College Dublin, Ireland
Email:ggrant $#at#$ macollamh.ucd.ie
13. Stochastic Methods for Conformational Sampling
Robert Topper
The Cooper Union, USA
Email:topper $#at#$ cooper.edu
14. Quantum Chemistry
Tim Clark
University of Erlangen, Germany
Email:clark $#at#$ organik.uni-erlangen.de
15. Structure-based Design
David Winkler
CSIRO, Australia
Email:D.Winkler $#at#$ chem.csiro.au
16. Car-Parrinello Methods and Applications
Michele Parrinello
Max-Planck Institute, Germany
Email:prr $#at#$ prr.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de
17. Visualization
Art Olson
Scripps Institute, USA
Email:olson $#at#$ scripps.edu
18. Perspectives in Molecular Modelling
Graham Richards
University of Oxford, UK
Email:gr $#at#$ vax.ox.ac.uk
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