Accelrys workshops for Catalyst

Accelrys will be holding two workshops on pharmacophore generation and 3D database searching using Catalyst. On November 8-9, the "Pharmacophore Generation with Catalyst" workshop will be held at the SGI facility in Mt. View, California. On November 20-21, the same workshop will be held in our office in Cambridge, UK.
The "Pharmacophore Generation with Catalyst" workshop is intended to introduce customers to pharmacophore generation and to the Catalyst user interface. Although no prior experience with molecular modeling is needed, a basic understanding of QSAR theory and UNIX would be beneficial.
The workshop begins with the basics of the Catalyst interface and builds to simple pharmacophore generation, selection of training sets, and three-dimensional database searching. Methods used within Catalyst for automatic hypothesis generation and manual hypothesis construction will be discussed. Some optimization of training sets and database searching will be covered as well.
This workshop provides attendees with the Catalyst-eye view of the structure-activity world that is necessary to best exploit its most useful features. Lectures presenting the methodologies and examples of their application to solve real-world problems will be followed by hands-on/discussion periods during which attendees can work though tutorials or discuss their own work with experts from Accelrys.
Fees for the 2-day course in the US are $1000 commercial, $500 government/non-profit, and $400 academic. For the UK workshop, the fees are GBP 700 commercial, GBP 350 government/non-profit, and GBP 280 academic if payment is by purchase order or check. If payment is by credit card, the fees are US$1000 commercial, US$500 government/non-profit, and US$400 academic.
Further detailed information about this and other Accelrys training workshops, as well as on-line course registration, can be found at Accelrys' website (http://www.accelrys.com/training/lifesci/schedule.html). Please do not hesitate to contact us should you have any questions. 
 Thank you very much.
 Jeffrey L. Nauss          Tien Luu
 858-799-5555              +44 1223 402 895
 Chris Arzt
 858-799-5340
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 Jeffrey L. Nauss, PhD		Phone: (858) 799-5555
 Life Science Customer Training 	Fax: (858) 799-5100
 Accelrys			E-mail: jnauss(-(at)-)accelrys.com
 9685 Scranton Road		http://www.accelrys.com/training/lifesci/
 San Diego, CA 92121-3752
 On June 1, MSI, Synopsys, Oxford Molecular, and GCG became Accelrys.
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