I am posting details for the eCheminfo Community of Practice Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications Workshop Meeting in December 2008 in Hyderabad, India. Please note that the deadline to apply for the bursary is September 12, 2008.

Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications Workshop
December 15-18, 2008
IIIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

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Virtual screening, structure-based drug design, lead optimisation and predictive ADME/toxicology supporting decision making in drug discovery
a Hands-on eCheminfo Workshop
This workshop precedes the “Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Modelling & Informatics” eCheminfo Community of Practice InterAction Meeting
December 19-20, 2008

Co-organised in Partnership by IIIT Hyderabad , JNU NewDelhi , Seascape Learning, and Douglas Connect
Facilitated by Barry Hardy

Work through in detail and discuss practical examples, methods and emerging techniques with leading modelling experts!

Virtual Screening & Docking
Structure-based Drug Design
Ligand Optimisation & Library Design
Structure Search, Similarity and Property Estimation
Data Mining, Analysis & Visualisation
Pharmacophore Modelling for Lead Identification
Fragment-based Drug Design
Predictive ADME
QSAR-based Predictive Toxicology

These workshops are aimed to provide a set of stimulating workshops using latest advanced modelling techniques of relevance to chemists, life scientists and modellers working in drug discovery. Participants should return to their labs with new ideas, best practices and software experiences to maximise productivity in their own drug discovery research activities.

Workshop groups will study problems with hands-on examples using leading-edge software and discuss complex issues highlighted by examples and case studies presented by instructors.

Software packages and an IT classroom will be used by instructors and participants to work through drug discovery and optimisation problems. Participants may propose problems and issues to the faculty ahead of the workshop. Participants will also have ample opportunity to discuss their perspectives and criticisms of the methods studied and should take-away key nuggets of understanding from these intensive sessions.

Workshop Leaders
Johann Gasteiger (Molecular Networks, Germany), Jeff Wiseman (Locus Pharmaceuticals, USA), Indira Ghosh (JNU, New Delhi, India), Paul Hawkins (OpenEye, USA), Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect, Switzerland), Peter Oledzki (BioSolveIT, Germany), Dhananjay Bhattacharyya (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India), Ismael Zamora (Pompeu Fabra University and Lead Molecular Design, Spain), Wojciech Plonka (Fujitsu Group, Japan)

A Bursary Award will be used to support the attendance of one academic participant at the workshop.

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For further information and questions on the Workshop program, please contact Dr. Barry Hardy at: barry.hardy -[at] – douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0170 . For international registrations, please contact Nicki Douglas, nicki.douglas –[at] – douglasconnect.com, Tel: +41 61 851 0461

If you are located in India, please contact Sunil Chawla at: sunil -[at] -seascapelearning.com, Tel: +91 981 0305 923 or Om Prakash at Tel: +91 985 0709 150 to complete your registration and payment in Rs. For more information, please visit http://seascapelearning.com/echeminfo_reg.html

Rob Reedijk
eCheminfo Community of Practice