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CONFCHEM Spring 2006 -- Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education
by Bob Hanson 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

ANNOUNCEMENT -- online conference -- starts FRIDAY, MAY 5 Spring 2006 CONFCHEM Conference on Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education The ACS Division of Chemical Education's Committee on Computers in Chemical Education will be hosting the Spring 2006 CONFCHEM online conference, "Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education," from May 5 to June 30 (http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/2006/b) This is a free online conference with seventeen papers being presented during eight week-long sessions. Each sessions will start on a Friday with registered subscribers submitting questions to authors through the weekend. The following Monday the authors will respond, and the discussion list will be open through Thursday for general discussion of that week's papers. You do not need to be registered to access the papers, but if you wish to view or participate in the discussion sessions you will need to subscribe to the list. Subscribe/Unsubscribe instructions may be found at http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/instructions.html. You are welcome to subscribe to the entire conference or to subscribe at any time after the beginning of the conference in order to participate only in those specific sessions that are of direct interest to you. Many of the authors’ online papers will provide links to their actual web sites (with passwords when needed), providing the opportunity to explore a site while interacting with the author directly. This combined with the discussion sessions should give this conference a workshop type atmosphere. If you are unfamiliar with CONFCHEM, we encourage you to subscribe to the discussion sessions even if you do not participate in the discussions. (You can “cancel” your subscription at any time.) Almost all of the subscribers will be chemical educators, and many will be educators who are also developers of other web-based applications. As the presenters are seeking input on their work, the ensuing discussions by subscribers could bring out important facets of the papers that you will miss if you are not subscribed to the discussion list. After the conference, all papers and discussions will be placed in the Archives on the CCCE CONFCHEM web site (http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem) If you have any questions, please feel free to contact one of the conference organizers listed below: Bob Belford (rebelford(a)ualr.edu) Bob Hanson (hansonr(a)stolaf.edu)

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Reports
by Wendy Warr 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Chemical Information and Computation 2005, Number 2 Report on the 230th ACS National Meeting, Washington DC, August 2005 The contents list is on the Web at http://www.warr.com/morepubs.html. The report: * Includes news from about 70 companies (including some not exhibiting) * Covers press releases for the last six months of 2005 * Features transcripts of 39 papers (all of them author-checked) presented to the Chemical Information and Computers in Chemistry Divisions on: o Structure-based drug design o Ligand-based drug design o Visualisation and Interpretation of Computational Models o Bridging the Gap from Paper to Electronic Notebooks o Chemical Information and Open Access o Public Information Databases o Public Policy and International Science Issues o Technology of Electronic Publishing Also available: a white paper Recent Trends in Discovery Informatics http://www.warr.com/index.html Half price to purchasers of Chemical Information and Computation 2005, Number 2 Contact me by email for further details. My apologies for this reminder if you have already ordered these reports. Wendy 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 <http://www.warr.com/>

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Program announcement and call for participants: ChemAxon User Group Meeting, June 7-8th, Budapest, Hungary
by Alex Allardyce 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

ChemAxon clients and forum users, We would like to invite you to join our User Group Meeting taking place June 7-8th at the Danubius Gellert Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. We have a wide range of scientific and technical oral and poster presentations from users, partners and ChemAxon staff. This year we introduce parallel Scientific and Developer workshop sessions for hands on works. The final program is available here: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html As with last year we have a full social program for attendees to enjoy, with an informal garden party at ChemAxon's offices on the evening of the 6th and a tour on the Danube for the evening of the 7th. There will also be early morning visits to the thermal spa facilities situated at the hotel. Those interested in participation should submit their registration, links below. The Poster abstract deadline remains open until May 26th. The event hotel is requesting priority booking for attendees, block bookings are held until April 28th. I look forward to welcoming you to Budapest in June. Alex Meeting home page: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/index.html Event program: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html To register or submit a poster abstract: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic272.html Poster submission guidelines: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic295.html Accommodation booking: http://www.chemaxon.hu/forum/ftopic261.html If you do not wish to recieve any further notifications related to ChemAxon's User Group Meeting. Please reply to this mail with the subject line "Unsubscribe"

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Program announcement and call for participants: ChemAxon User Group Meeting, June 7-8th, Budapest, Hungary
by Alex Allardyce 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Please excuse multiple postings We are announcing the program and a call for participants at ChemAxon's 2006 User Group Meeting taking place June 7-8th at the Danubius Gellert Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. The meeting will have a wide range of scientific and technical oral and poster presentations from ChemAxon users, partners and ChemAxon staff. This year we introduce parallel Scientific and Developer Workshop sessions for hands on works. The final program is available here: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html Those interested in participation should submit their registration, links below. The Poster abstract deadline remains open until May 26th. The event hotel is requesting priority booking for attendees, block bookings are held until April 28th. I look forward to welcoming you to Budapest in June. Alex Meeting home page: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/index.html Event program: http://www.chemaxon.com/UGM/06/program.html To register or submit a poster abstract: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic272.html Poster submission guidelines: http://www.chemaxon.com/forum/ftopic295.html Accomodation booking: http://www.chemaxon.hu/forum/ftopic261.html Alex Allardyce ChemAxon email aa(a)chemaxon.com Tel. +361 453 2658 --

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Examples of use of Jmol requested
by Bob Hanson 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

A group of us are preparing a paper to be presented at the next CONFCHEM online conference <http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/2006/b> Web-Based Applications for Chemical Education: Experiences and Visions (beginning May 5) entitled: Jmol: Open-source molecular visualization <http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/bh/confchem/confchem_s2006.htm#howard> As part of this presentation, we plan to highlight web applications that make use of Jmol. If you have written such a web page, even if it doesn't make extensive use of Jmol, and it does not appear at http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Websites_Using_Jmol please let me know (off list, please) so that we can consider adding your site to the list presented and also possibly highlighting it. Thank you, Bob Hanson -- Robert M. Hanson, hansonr(a)stolaf.edu, 507-646-3107 Professor of Chemistry, St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057 mailto:hansonr@stolaf.edu http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

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