I am posting this on behalf of my co-organizer, Guenter Grethe. Note that the closing date for abstracts is fast approaching. This notice has been published on several listservers. We apologize for any inconvenience. You are invited to present a paper at the symposium "Research collaboratories, virtual laboratories, and Grid computing" organized jointly by the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) and the CSA Trust during the 227th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Anaheim, March 28 - April 1, 2004. We specifically solicit papers discussing research, design, and development of Grid technologies that help in solving large-scale compute and data intensive applications in the broader area ofbiomolecular informatics, including software tools and resource brokers that facilitate large-scale molecular studies on geographically distributed computational and data resources. Abstracts should be submitted online using OASYS (http://oasys.acs.org). The deadline for submission is November 25, 2003. Any changes to an abstract can be made until December 1st. If you have any questions regarding the symposium or problems with submitting your abstract please call or e-mail me (see below). Co-organizer of the symposium is Dr. Wendy Warr of Wendy Warr & Associates. The targeted length of a presentation is 30 minutes including 5 minutes for Q&A. When planning your presentation, consider a back-up person from your organization who could deliver your talk if for any reason you are prevented from attending the meeting. Speakers are responsible for their own travel and registration costs. One-day registration fees will be paid by the Division after approval by the organizers for speakers who are non-US scientists or non-ACS members Dr. Guenter Grethe 352 Channing Way Alameda, CA 94502-7409 Tel/Fax: 510-865-5152 Mobile: 510-333-7526 e-mail: ggrethe@comcast.net -- 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