Colleagues,
Please excuse multiple postings. In connection with a paper I am giving
in an ACS COMP Division symposium in New Orleans, I want to re-open the
discussion on chemoinformatics that we had on one of these lists some
years ago. Not only has the term "chemoinformatics" become even more
strongly entrenched (though some say "cheminformatics) but some
companies now formally use the awful job title "chemoinformatician".
Leaving aside linguistic considerations, I would be interested in
subscribers' views on the following.
What does a chemoinformatician actually do that a computational chemist
or chemical information professional does not do?
What skills would you look for if you were recruiting one of these
scientists, under whatever job title?
Is there a shortage of such skills and, if so, what should the higher
education establishment be doing (if anything) to help supply meet
demand?
Please reply to me in person but I will summarize the comments for the
list(s) if this seems desirable.
Wendy
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Dr Wendy A Warr
Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court
Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England
Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837
wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com
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(Excuse me for sending to several mailing lists)
Our MolBank section (http://www.molbank.org) of Molecules
is perhaps the first, almost perfect electronic journal in chemistry.
You can already search on the website www.molbank.org all the
published compounds by 2D substructure search.
MolBank new features:
- easy, electronic procedure to submit a paper
- free access from the Internet with powerful searching tools
- IUPAC Names (for the titles) generated by CAD (http://www.acdlabs.com)
in addition to the following
- one-paper for one reaction with one fully characterized product
- very fast publication, particularly suitable for
publishing short communications to have the priority the a chemist
is the first to have synthesized a compound or have fully
characterized a natural product
- easy publication of short notes of scattered unassembled experimental
data for individual compounds which is conventionally not
publishable
I would like to introduce Dr. Luc Patiny as the MolBank
section Editor of MOLECULES
(http://www.mdpi.org/molecules/editors.htm#molbank) Dr. Patiny is from
the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University Lausanne, Switzerland.
We will publish a large issue soon in August 1999.
Enjoy it!
Shu-Kun
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Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 79 322 3379, Fax +41 61 302 8918
E-mail: lin(a)mdpi.org
http://www.mdpi.org/lin/
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Hi,
August's MOTM is the asthma drug Salbutamol and has been written by Jerome
Hettich as part of an undergraduate project at Imperial College London.
Direct link: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/local/projects/j_hettich/+start.html
MOTM page: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/motm.htm
Regards,
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