Eight Talks I'd Like to See in Philadelphia

Rich Apodaca — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:13:00 +0000

I just received the Chemical Information Bulletin for the Fall ACS, a meeting I unfortunately won't be at. There are quite a few talks that sound good. Here's a list of eight of them:

CINF 5. The rise and fall of British Chemical Abstracts. Helen Cooke, GSK. From the abstract: "Prior to the start of Chemical Abstracts (CA) in 1907, the ACS unsuccessfully attempted to collaborate with the SCI and CS to produce a single abstracts journal. The increasing importance of CA and the impact of outside influences, such as the war, led to the demise of the BCA in 1953." One can't help but wonder: if CAS is headed for a similar fate, what would its replacement(s) look like?
CINF 48. Using text-mining and crowdsourced curation to build a structure centric community for chemists. Antony Williams, ChemZoo. Could this have something to do with the question posed above?
CINF 50. Mining, storage, retrieval: The challenge of integrating cheminformatics with chemical structure recognition in text and images. Valentina Eigner-Pitto, InfoChem. As early as 1990, the translation of raster images into machine-readable 2D chemical structures has been an area of active interest. The talk is part of a series on extracting 2D structures from the print literature.
CINF 51. Automated extraction of chemical structures in large text corpora. Nicko Goncharoff, SureChem. SureChem is building an impressive database covering the chemical patent literature. Patents remain the world's largest repository of open access chemical publications, so tools to use them more effectively will only grow in importance.
CINF 53. Optical structure recognition application. Igor V. Filippov, NCI. Igor's OSRA software is an open source implementation capable of converting raster images into 2D structures. It was reviewed here.
CINF 54. Introducing CLiDE Pro. A Peter Johnson, U. of Leeds. Of special interest: "A key component of the presentation will be CLiDE Pro's approach to the interpretation of generic structures."
CINF 74. A status report on the InChI & InCHIKey project. Stephen Heller, NIST. InChI has been the subject of many articles here.
CINF 78. A new, automated retrosynthetic search engine: ARChem. A. Peter Johnson, U. of Leeds. Truly usable synthesis planning always seems to be one of those technologies just on the horizon, so a new approach might have potential. Given that ARChem Route Designer "runs on a server with a web-based user interface", the talk is even more interesting.

"Eight Talks I'd Like to See in Philadelphia" by baoilleach

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:25:35 +0000

Anyway, everyone knows that you guys in the UAE have terrible at geography!

"Eight Talks I'd Like to See in Philadelphia" by Geoffrey Hutchison

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:29:01 +0000

So it's OK for me to say "San Diego," or "San Francisco" ... got the same first word and the same state? I'll be sure to tell my travel agent that. :-)

"Eight Talks I'd Like to See in Philadelphia" by Rich Apodaca

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:00:41 +0000

Yikes! How about partial credit for getting the first letter and the state? :-). Thanks for the correction - I changed the title.

"Eight Talks I'd Like to See in Philadelphia" by Geoffrey Hutchison

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:08:35 +0000

I think you mean Philadelphia. :-)

I'd be very happy if the ACS meeting was in Pittsburgh, but I don't think our convention center can hold it. However, for the more physics-minded, the APS March Meeting will be here in PGH.

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