OpenEye Scientific Software
CUP IV Meeting
Feb. 23-24, 2003
Santa Fe, NM

NOTE: Check back here for links to CUP4 presentations. We are in the process of gathering and publishing these post-CUP.


Schedule:

Saturday, Feb. 22
Afternoon:
Training: 2pm-5pm - Software Overview, Vida and Fred in Detail
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Evening:
AFITT meeting: 7pm - Members Only
Sunday, Feb. 23
Morning:
Welcome, Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Witaj
8.15 The Gathering: Tea, Coffee and Pastries.
8.40 Welcome to our World & Who are all these people? Anthony Nicholls
Toolkits
9.00 What a Piece of Work is OEChem! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! The Stahl-Sayle-Skillman Hive-Mind
9.40 PyOEChem: It just isn't fair! Bob Tolbert
10.00 OEChem: I never doubted for a moment Pat Walters, Vertex
10.30 Morning Tea
10.50 The CADAVER Toolkit: VIDA goes back to school Joe Corkery, Kevin Schmidt
11.20 Force Fields: Who knew they'd be useful? Stan Wlodek, Anthony Nicholls
11.50 FizzChem Matt Stahl
12.15 Lunch: Seek and thou shalt find!
Afternoon:
Docking
1.30 Incorporating Entropic Loss Due to Binding in Virtual Screening Sumeet Salaniwal, Wyeth Research
2.00 Is there life after docking? Consensus scoring, solvation, and dynamics David Lorber, Structural Genomix
2.30 A Critical Assessment of Docking Programs. Do any of them really work? Marti Head, GlaxoSmithKline
3.00 Shape Seems to be Important for Docking Geoff Skillman
3.45 Afternoon Tea
4.00 The Levinthal Lecture: "Live and Uncensored!" Tack Kuntz
5.00 Break for Dinner and poster/demo preparation
Evening:
7.00 Posters & Demos
  • Poster/demo: Chemtatto and shape clustering with lead hopping, Norah and John MacCuish, Mesa Analytics & Computing
  • Poster/demo: A metric for molecular complexity, Tharun Kumar Allu and Tudor Oprea, University of New Mexico  PDF
  • Poster: An algorithm to sample receptor flexibility in molecular docking, Binqing Wei, Northwestern Univ Medical School
  • Poster/demo: Using PyMOL with OpenEye Scientific Software, Warren DeLano, DeLano Scientific and Sunesis Pharmaceuticals
  • Poster: The Montreal Collaboration on Scoring Functions (MCScF), Christopher Bayly, Merck
  • Poster: Approximate Solvation Models, Matthew Sykes, University of Sheffield
  • Poster: Approaches to Continuum Solvation Models, Christine Kitchen, University of Sheffield and AstraZeneca
  • Poster/demo: Structural searching using MySQL and OEChem, Jeremy Yang, OpenEye HTML
  • Demo: VIDA, Joe Corkery, OpenEye
  • Demo: FRED, Mark McGann, OpenEye
  • Demo: XOEChem, Matt Stahl, OpenEye
9.00 May we introduce you to this stuff called: 'Tequila'?
Monday, Feb. 24
Morning:
Tequila Hangover Remedy
8.15 Tea, Coffee and Pastries.
8.45 Review of Sunday's Festivities Anthony Nicholls
Shape
9.00 ROCS, MOCS and Electro-ROCS Bob Tolbert
9.30 Tversky Shape Clustering for Screening Data HTML PPT Norah and John MacCuish, Mesa Analytics & Computing
10.00 A New Look at Clustering Large Datasets HTML Robin Hewitt, Hewitt Consulting
10.30 Morning Tea
Proteins
10.45 A Hacker's Guide to Protein Malin Young, Sandia National Labs
11.15 Proteins, Crystallography, Databases and All That Tom Peat, Jon Christopher
11.45 Andrews Binding Energy: Can it be revisited? HTML PPT Tudor Oprea, U. New Mexico
12.15 Lunch: You know the drill.
Afternoon:
Electrostatics
1.45 Prediction of Hydrogen-bond strengths HTML PPT Peter Kenny, AstraZeneca
2.15 GBSA and other bad theories of electrostatics HTML PPT Anthony Nicholls
2.45 Zap and Quantum Mechanics: Doing it Right? Andrew Grant, AstraZeneca
3.15 Perfect, Efficient and Most Excellent Charges HTML PPT Roger Sayle
3.45 Final Thoughts, Initial thoughts on CUP V Anthony Nicholls
4.00 Maximal dispersal to demos, mini-sessions and strategic think-tanks
6.00 Clear on out
Monday Evening:
7.00 Guadalajara Grill
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Afternoon:
Training: 2pm-4pm - ROCS and Shape, Something for Everyone
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