Schedule

From I571_2006_Wiki

Important Notes

  • The class will be held 2.30 - 3.45pm Eastern Time, Mondays and Wednesdays. Note that the three main institutions running this class have difference semester calendars, so check for not be attended by some students. We will make every effort to record all classes for playback.
  • Official course dates are
    • IUB: AUG 28 - DEC 9, NO CLASS NOV 21-26
    • IUPUI: AUG 23 - DEC 11, NO CLASS SEP 4, NOV 22-26
    • MICHIGAN: SEP 5 - DEC 13, NO CLASS SEP 4, OCT 16-17, NOV 22-26
  • Distance Education students will follow the Bloomington (IUB) calendar.
  • Slides and recordings will be posted below where available. To replay a recording, you just need a web browser that is enabled for Macromedia Flash.

Class Schedule

Date Lecturer Subject
Aug 28 David Wild Introduction to the world of chemical informatics. Overview of the class; defining chemical informatics; chemical and bioinformatics; chemical informatics and the pharmaceutical industry; example applications; a glimpse of the future of chemical informatics. PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Aug 30 - No class
Sep 4 - No class (Labor Day)
Sep 6 David Wild Representing 2D structures. Kinds of 2D structure representation; atom lookup and connection tables; graph theory; SMILES; SD files; representation nuances; descriptors. Canonicalizing SMILES; representing reactions; representing generic structures; fingerprints; measuring chemical similarity; XML, CML, InChI and other web-oriented representation systems PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Sep 11 Gary Wiggins Commercial vendors & databases I. Systems for browsing databases (STN, SciFinder Scholar, Crossfire Commander); Commercial databases available (CAS, Beilstein, Cambridge Structural Dataset); Spectral Databases; Open Access issues PPT slides (Recording not available)
Sep 13 Kalpana Shankar Ethnography of Paper: Implications for Electronic Laboratory Notebooks in Scientific Practice Recording
Sep 18 Gary Wiggins Commercial vendors & databases II. Product demonstrations Recording
Sep 20 David Wild 2D chemical database applications. Types of searching; substructure searching with SMARTS; similarity searching with fingerprints; demonstrations of searching systems PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Sep 25 David Wild Advanced 2D descriptors and methods. Kinds of descriptor; “mathematical” and topological indices; biological descriptors and their application in ADME/Tox; biological properties; property prediction software; 2D QSAR; cluster analysis; diversity analysis PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Sep 27 Rajarshi Guha What Do QSAR Models Tell Us and Do the Results Make Sense? Why interpretation of QSAR models is required. Interpretation techniques for linear and non-linear models. Case study of the interpretation of linear regression models. Can we determine whether a QSAR model can be used to predict new data? Approaches to determining model validity PDF slides Recording
Oct 2 David Wild Representing 3D Structures Sources of 3D information; experimental 3D databases; conformational flexibility; distance matrices; estimation of 3D structure; conformational search and minimization; 3D descriptors and fingerprint; representation of proteins PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Oct 4 David Wild 3D Visualization and Computation History of 3D visualization; free visualization and computation tools; 3D QSAR and models of activity; docking & virtual screening (same slides as Oct 2) Recording
Oct 9 David Wild Chemical Informatics Software Development I PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Oct 11 Ian Watson
Eli Lilly
Some things I've learned in chemoinformatics PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Oct 16 John Barnard
Digital Chemistry
Generic and Markush Searching. NOTE: This is during Michigan study break. Michigan students should replay this class online, if unable to attend. Check this page for a link after the class. PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Oct 18 NO CLASS NO CLASS - instead watch Introductory to Laboratory Informatics and optionally other I617 classes.
Oct 23 Jack Bikker
Pfizer
Virtual Screening PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Oct 25 Rajarshi Guha Emerging Web Technologies for Chemical Informatics What technologies and tools are available, how they can be used to extend traditional applications and enhance chemical data PDF slides Recording
Oct 30 David Wild Chemical Informatics Software Development II (same slides as Oct 9) Recording
Nov 1 David Wild Chemical Informatics Software Development III (same slides as Oct 9) Recording
Nov 6 David Wild Using OpenEye software for desktop molecular modeling (no slides) Recording
Nov 8 Tom Doman
Eli Lilly
Hot Topics in Chemoinformatics PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Nov 13 Chihae Yang
Leadscope
Using Leadscope for computational drug discovery PDF slides Leadscope Tutorial Recording
Nov 15 Chihae Yang
Leadscope
Computational Toxicology PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Nov 20 Gary Wiggins Topic to be announced
Nov 22 - No class (Thanksgiving)
Nov 27 David Wild Chemical Informatics Research PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Nov 29 David Wild Chemoinformatics, 'omics', and Systems Biology PDF slides PDF 6 slides/page Recording
Dec 4 Sean Ekins
ACT LLC
Systems ADME/Tox PowerPoint slides
Dec 6