Call for papers

[Val Gillet <V.Gillet -x- at -x- sheffield.ac.uk>]

 CALL FOR PAPERS: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
 OF COMBINATORIAL LIBRARIES
 The Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society and the Chemical
 Structure Association are organising a joint conference on the
 computational analysis of molecular diversity, to be held in
 Sheffield, UK 14-16 April 1998.  Contributions are now sought in areas
 such as: the design of diverse and focussed libraries; algorithms and
 methods for the selection of database subsets; the representation and
 searching of combinatorial libraries and analogous virtual databases;
 the design and use of both in-house and commercial software for
 diversity analysis; diversity indices; compararison of property-based
 and fingerprint-based (dis)similarity measures; and the integration of
 diversity analysis with other computational tools, such as docking and
 QSAR.
 People wishing to present their work should submit a 500-word abstract
 (preferably by email) to Dr V.J. Gillet, Department of Information
 Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK (tel.
 044-114-2222652, fax 044-1142780300, email v.gillet -x- at -x- sheffield.ac.uk)
 by 1st October 1997.