From chemistry-request@ccl.net Thu Apr 28 22:54:50 2005 Received: from salud.unm.edu (salud.unm.edu [64.234.186.111]) by server.ccl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3T2sjFD018861 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:54:46 -0400 Received: from HSC-MTA by salud.unm.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:52:30 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.5 Beta Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:52:08 -0600 From: "Cristian Bologa" To: Subject: Invitation for the ChemMask Project Challenge Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on server.ccl.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by server.ccl.net id j3T2soFD018865 Hello everyone, Data sharing with the private sector remains a rather difficult issue. The question that we're trying to address is: Can we mask the chemical structure of a molecule, while sharing chemical properties that are relevant to this molecule in a given context? This mail is an invitation to all 1. who are interested in reverse engineering the masked chemical structure from a set of molecular descriptors. 2. who are interested to offer descriptors that pass the first challenge. We call this the ChemMask project. This is being hosted by the Division of Biocomputing at the University of New Mexico. If you are interested please visit http://pimento.health.unm.edu for more information on how to participate. Regards from New Mexico, Tharun K. Allu, Cristian Bologa and Tudor I. Oprea Division of Biocomputing University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA