Apologies for cross-posting.
There are still some places available on the Chemical Structure Association
Trust (CSA Trust) and Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information
Group's joint one-day Training Course on "Chemical Information for the
Non-Chemist" at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House,
Piccadilly, London on Tuesday 12 October 2004 from 10.00 - 16.30.
The objectives of the Course are as follows:
* show why chemical information is different from other types of
information
* describe how chemical structures are handled and to introduce
chemical structure searching
* review relevant databases
Cost: £20.00 for members (£30.00 for non-members), including lunch.
A booking form is available on the RSC-CIG web site at:-
http://cds.dl.ac.uk/cds/CIG/CIG-Booking-Form.html
Programme, with speakers from industry, academia and the RSC:
09.30 Arrival, registration, coffee, etc.
10.00 - 10.05 Chairperson's introductory remarks
10.05 - 10.45 Why is chemical information different from other types of
information? How is the chemical structure handled by the chemical
information
providers?
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee
11.00 - 11.35 Use of text in Internet sources
11.35 - 12.15 Chemical structure drawing packages
12.15 - 12.25 Presentation of the Strix Award
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.05 Overview of Structure Databases on STN
14.05 - 14.40 How to search for chemical structures - substructure
searching
14.40 - 15.15 RSC Information Services - including Knovel
15.15 - 15.30 Tea
15.30 - 16.00 Basic introduction to the concepts of reaction searching
and generic structure searching plus examples of reaction searching from a
variety of databases
16.00 Open session - discussion of problems. Round up
For bookings, please contact Chris Evans on (01452) 633390 or email
christopher.j.evans "at" invista.com (sorry for the format of my email
address but I am just trying to minimise the number of spambots that
collect it).
Regards,
Chris Evans
Library & Information Manager
INVISTA Textiles (UK) Ltd.
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