*Apologies for duplicate postings.*
The next meeting of the
Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group will be a joint
meeting with the Chemical Structure Association Trust, to be held on
Wednesday 29th October 2008, at The Royal Society of Chemistry,
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
This one-day training
course will continue the successful meetings held in previous years,
with a series of presentations that will provide an impartial and
critical overview of Chemical Information products. It will be given by
specialists from academic information departments, vendor
representatives and the pharmaceutical industry. The theme of the
presentations will cover structure searching in relation to chemical
reactions, chemical properties and chemicals reported in patents.
PROGRAMME
10.00 to 10.30 Registration & Tea/Coffee
10.30 to 11.10 "What makes Chemical Information different" - David Walsh (Pfizer)
11.10 to 11.50 "Searching for Chemicals on the Internet" - Teresa Loughbrough (Unilever)
11.50 to 12.30 "Chemical Structure Drawing Packages" - Don Parkin (Chemical Database Service, Daresbury)
12.30 to 13.30 LUNCH
13.30 to 14.10 "Overview of Structure Databases on STN" – Jan Davies (STN)
14.10 to 14.50 "How to search for chemical structures - Substructure searching" – Yvonne Pope (CAS)
14.50 to 15.10 TEA
15.10 to 15.50 "The RSC Virtual Library" - Nazma Masud (RSC)
15.50 to 16.30 "Introduction to Reaction Searching" – Jasen Chooramun (AstraZeneca)
This
meeting represents extremely good value for money, as the cost is only
£30 to members of the CICAG/CSA Trust/USTLG and £40 for non-members,
including coffee, tea and lunch.
Further information is available at http://www.rsc.org/cicag or http://www.csa-trust.org/default.asp and a booking form can be downloaded from http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/conference/downloadfile.cfm?fname=bookingformoct08%2Epdf (the booking deadline is October 22nd).
Or contact:
Chris Evans
RSC-CICAG Treasurer
22 Coburn Gardens, Cheltenham, GL51 0GE
email: chrisevans72 at btinternet.com
tel. +44 (0)1242 510778
