eScience for Cheminformatics and Drug Discovery 2008

David Wild, Indiana University, USA
Rajarshi Guha, Indiana University, USA
Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA

Organizing and Program Committee

Dr. Ajay, NIH (P.C. only)
Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University
Dr. Curt Breneman, RPI
Dr. Paul Clemons, Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT
Dr. Tom Doman, Eli Lilly
Dr. Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton
Dr. Phil Hajduk, Abbott Laboratories
Dr. Michael Lajiness, Eli Lilly
Dr. Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge
Dr. Kerby Shedden, University of Michigan
Dr. Alex Tropsha, UNC School of Pharmacy
Dr. Ian Watson, Eli Lilly

Cheminformatics is becoming an increasingly important part of drug discovery, chemistry, biology, toxicology and environmental science. There are now huge volumes of information about chemical compounds and their related biological properties available in the public domain, as well as in proprietary databases, and a large number of computations that can be applied to this information. There is thus much interest in the application of eScience and cyberinfrastructure to such information mining and computation problems. We are requesting papers that will cover a variery of aspects of this emerging application of eScience and grid computing in chemistry, cheminformatics, biology, toxicology, environmental science and computer-aided drug discovery. Papers should address one or more of the following areas:

    * Computation on extremely large chemical datasets (>10m chemical structures)
    * Distributed data mining of large chemical and biological datasets
    * Grand challenges in cheminformatics
    * High impact opportunities for cheminformatics and eScience
    * Cloud computing infrastructure requirements for cheminformatics
    * Chemistry-aware search engines and journal article processing tools
    * Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web applications

Date and Time

Thursday, December 11, Time TBA

Submission of papers

Click here to submit a paper for review at the EasyChair website. You will need to create a login if you do not already have an EasyChair account.

The deadline for submission is August 10, 2008