Subject: Call for Papers - virtual High-Throughput Screening

From: Osman F Guner <osman/at/accelrys.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:13:49 -0700

We invite you to submit abstracts for a symposium entitled:

"Advances in virtual high-throughput screening"

at ACS National Meeting Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26, 2004
Sponsored by Division of Chemical Information (CINF)
Cosponsored by Divisions of Medicinal Chemistry (MEDI) and Computers in 
Chemistry (COMP)I

We are looking for submissions for new developments and applications in 
virtual HTS, including 1D, 2D, and 3D screening:
descriptor-based screening, 
application of Lipinski rules, 
use of predictive ADME/Tox
substructure and similarity searching
pharmacophore-based 3D database searching
use of receptor structure for screening, fast docking (please also see a 
program at COMP entitled "Docking and scoring")
success stories in application of various vHTS technologies in drug 
discovery and design.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is April 28th.  Use the OASYS (
http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm) to submit your abstracts.  Click on the 
chemical information division link (CINF) and follow the instructions.

Osman F. Güner, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Cheminformatics and Rational Drug Design
Accelrys Inc.,  858-799-5341
osman/at/accelrys.com, http://www.accelrys.com