Call for Papers

The International Conference on Chemical Structures brings together an international group interested in handling chemical structures and related topics. The conference will be held at the Leeuwenhorst Congress Center, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, which is a modern comprehensive center, with recreational facilities, only 2 km from the dunes and easily reached from Schiphol airport and by train from major European cities.

Scientific Program

The conference will start with a keynote address on Sunday afternoon followed by a traditional Rijsttafel dinner. Six plenary sessions and a poster session are planned during the remaining 3.5 days of the conference.

The 8th International Conference on Chemical Structures is seeking presentations of novel research and emerging technologies for the following plenary sessions:

Cheminformatics

molecular similarity and diversity
library analysis and profiling
chemical information visualization
representation and searching of conformationally flexible compounds

Structure-Activity and Structure-Property Prediction

data fusion, consensus modeling and multi-property optimization
prediction of ADME/Tox properties
industrialized and large-scale QSAR/QSPR model building

Structure-Based Drug Design and Virtual Screening

protein flexibility in docking
improved chemical models and scoring functions
integration of virtual and high-throughput screening

Analysis of Large Data Sets

data mining of HTS data
analysis of large chemistry spaces
machine learning

Informatics for Bridging Between Chemistry and Biology

integrative discovery informatics
virtual pharmacology
target family based approaches to drug discovery

Virtual Chemistry

structure- and ligand-based de-novo design
synthesis planning and design
mining electronic lab journals
reaction networks, reaction databases and reaction retrieval

We encourage the submission of papers on both applications and case studies as well as on method development and algorithmic work. The final program will be a balance of these two aspects.

Posters can be submitted for any of the above and related areas, but we welcome contributions in any aspect of the computer handling of chemical structure information, such as:

representation and manipulation of organic and inorganic compounds, biomacromolecules and polymers
new algorithms for searching and managing chemical structures and reactions
3D databases and pharmacophore modeling
(automatic) structure elucidation
combinatorial chemistry, diversity analysis
web technology and its effect on chemical information
electronic publishing
searching/dealing with patent spaces
MM or QM/MM simulations
practical free energy calculations
material sciences

The conference will feature a new product review session for commercial presentations.

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The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 February 2008.