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 -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)