Please excuse duplicate postings. My thanks to everyone who sent me data, opinions, and job descriptions for my talk in New Orleans on the discipline of cheminformatics and the shortage of skilled staff in that field. I promised to summarize it all for the lists but that is very difficult in view of the sheer volume of information involved. About two years ago, many people (including myself) considered that "cheminformatics" was a nasty neologism. My survey this summer shows that it is now an established discipline, although the tasks involved, and even the name of the discipline, are not clearly defined yet. "Cheminformatics" was preferred to "chemoinformatics" by most respondents. One company uses "chemiiinformatics". There is still much distaste for the job title "cheminformatician". A zipped file of my PowerPoint slides is available on my Web site http://www.warr.com/ I have been waiting for COMP Division to put all the slides from this Symposium on the COMP web site at http://membership.acs.org/C/COMP/ Unfortunately I think that this has not happened - though at least four of the main headings on that home page give "404 Not Founds", so perhaps the material is there but temporarily hidden. My sincere thanks to all of you who helped in this survey. 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)