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March 6-8, 2006
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Monday, March 6
8.00-9.00 Check in
8.15 Tea, Coffee and Pastries.
8.45 Introduction to CUP Anthony Nicholls, OpenEye
9.15 The OpenEye Development Plan [PDF] Bob Tolbert, OpenEye
10.30 Morning break
Session: The Government and chemistry
11.00 The NIH Molecular Libraries Initiative: Chemical Tools for the Genome Era Chris Austin, NIH
11.30 Carolina Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research: Development, Implementation, and Use of the ChemBench system in support of NIH's Molecular Library Initiative Alex Tropsha, UNC
12.00 Lunch
1.00 Training: Shape searching with ROCS [PDF]   tutorial[PDF] Paul Hawkins, OpenEye
2.30 Delineating the Underlying Chemistry and Physics of Small Molecules Responsible for Biological Activity and Physical Properties [abstract] Anne Chaka, NIST
3.00 Chemical Methodology and Library Development at Boston University [abstract] Scott Schaus, BU
3.30 Chemical and Biological Analysis Tools in PubChem [PDF] Evan Bolton, NIH/NCBI
4.00 Afternoon Tea
4.15 InChI and other government conspiracies [PDF] Roger Sayle, OpenEye
4.45 Discussion: "On the role of government in drug discovery."
Session -- Posters and Demos
6.30-8.30 Open bar hosted by OpenEye
 
Posters:
LexiChem and structure-based patent searching [abstract] Nicko Goncharoff, Reel Two
Chord fragment-based properties and fragment-key fingerprints [abstract] TJ O'Donnell, Gnova Scientific Software
Towards Shape Clustering of PubChem [abstract] Fabien Fontaine, Evan Bolton, Yulia Borodina and Stephen H Bryant, NIH/NCBI
Charting Biologically Relevant Chemical Space: A Structural Classification of Natural Products (SCONP) [abstract] Wetzel, S., Ertl, P., Schuffenhauer, A., Waldmann, H., Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology
Generating Conformation Models using OMEGA: Predicting RMSD needed for a desired number of conformers [PNG] Yulia Borodina, NIH/NCBI
Using search indexes to speed similarity neighboring [PDF] Evan Bolton, NIH/NCBI
Implementing a text based method (Lingo) using Finite State Machines for fast similarity searching Andrew Grant, AstraZeneca; James Haigh, Sheffield University; Roger Sayle, OpenEye
Reproducing Bio-Active Conformations with Catalyst, Omega 2 and Macromodel [abstract]   [PDF] Johannes Kirchmair, University of Innsbruck; Gerhard Wolber, Inte:Ligand GmbH; Christian Laggner, University of Innsbruck; Thierry Langer, University of Innsbruck
RMSD - Routine measure stirs doubts [abstract]   [PNG]   addendum[PNG] Jeremy Yang, OpenEye
One dimensional properties in virtual screening: can they be useful? [PNG] Paul Hawkins, OpenEye
 
Demos:
6.30 Surechem: LexiChem and structure-based patent searching Nicko Goncharoff, Reel Two
  Chord TJ O'Donnell, gNova
  Stereo 3-D Visualization for Chemistry on Mac OS X Matt MacInnis, Apple
  The Cheminformatics Virtual Classroom Norah and John MacCuish, Mesa
  Vida Brian Kelley and Joe Corkery, OpenEye
  SAESAR - Visualization of Shape Clusters Mitch Chapman, Mesa
  Afitt Jon Christopher, OpenEye
Tuesday, March 7
8.15 Tea, Coffee and Pastries.
Session: Bioisosteres
8.45 Re-defining bio-isosterism using Rocs and Eon [abstract] [PDF] Mike Tennant, Pharmix and Andy Jennings, Takeda
9.15 Bioisoelektrofigosteres: Beyond what chemists already know? [PDF 1.7 MB] Geoff Skillman, OpenEye
9.45 Application of EON for SAR Modeling and Bioisosteric Replacement [PDF] Zheng Yang, GSK
10.15 Morning break
10.45 Comprehensive enumeration of ligand shapes James Haigh, Sheffield University
11.15 Electrostatic similarity [PDF] Anthony Nicholls, OpenEye
11.45 Discussion: "Shape, Electrostatics, who could ask for anything more?"
12.00 Lunch
1.00 Training: Docking with Fred [PDF]   tutorial[PDF] Paul Hawkins, OpenEye
Session: Ligand design
2.30 Similarity of Molecular Surfaces: Tales of Multiple Scales [PDF] Ajay Jain, UCSF
3.00 Integrating Virtual Screening Technologies (VST) with High-Throughput Screening (HTS): Some Practical Examples [abstract]   [PDF] Tudor Oprea, UNM
3.30 GLARE: Rough Cut-to-Shape for Truly Immense Libraries Christopher Bayly, Merck Frosst
4.00 Afternoon Tea
4.30 ROCS and a small company: A success story in HCV [abstract] Dale Cameron, Migenix
5.00 A comparison of structure-based and shape-based tools in virtual screening [PDF] Paul Hawkins, OpenEye
5.30 short break
5.45 Levinthal Lecture: "Structure. Huh. What is it good for?" Steve Muchmore, Abbott
Wednesday, March 8th
8.15 Tea, Coffee and Pastries.
Session: Simulations and Force Fields
8.45 Overview of Force Field Development [abstract] Wendy Cornell, Merck
9.15 Putting statistical mechanics in its place: Using ensembles to estimate binding affinities Scott Brown, Abbott
9.45 Lessons from massively-scaled free energy calculations on Folding@Home [abstract] Michael Shirts, Columbia
10.15 Morning break
10.45 Your Tax Dollars at Work -- SimTK.org, really good free software for physics-based simulation of biological structures [abstract]   [PDF] Michael Sherman, Stanford
11.15 The OpenEye Plan for Binding Energies Geoff Skillman, OpenEye
11.45 Discussion: "Do we know enough to calculate Protein-Ligand Affinities?"
12.00 Lunch
1.00 Training: OEChem [PDF]   examples Jeremy Yang, OpenEye
Session: Structural biology
2.30 Protein electrostatics [PDF] Anthony Nicholls, OpenEye
3.00 When gravity fails and negativity does pull you through: Active site definition and manipulation Marti Head, GSK and Kevin Schmidt, OpenEye
3.30 An alternative approach for the evaluation of docking performance: RMSD vs. RSR [abstract]   [PDF] Stefan Schmitt, AstraZeneca
4.00 Afternoon Tea
4.30 Real good real-space ligand density fitting Stan Wlodek and Brian Kelley, OpenEye
5.00 More of the PDB's greatest mistakes [PDF] Matt Stahl, OpenEye
5.30 Wrap up  
6:00 End of technical sessions
7.00Dinner at the Guadalajara Grill (3788 Cerrillos Rd, 505-424-3544) -- hosted by OpenEye
 

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