Apologies for multiple postings. CHEMICAL STRUCTURE ASSOCIATION TRUST 1998 AWARD The Chemical Structure Association Trust is an internationally recognised Trust established to promote education, research or development in the area of systems and methods for the storage, processing and retrieval of information about chemical structures, reactions and compounds. Applications are invited for the 1998 Chemical Structure Association Trust Award. The Trust is offering an Award of up to two thousand pounds sterling for the best applicant seeking funds for education or research in chemical information. Anyone working in the field of chemical information research can apply and application can be made for funds to attend a relevant conference, for travel (e.g. to collaborate with another research group) or for hardware or software to assist with the research project. The award is unlikely to be given exclusively for hardware and software. The application should include: 1. A statement of academic qualifications 2. Details of relevant work and a statement of research recently completed by the applicant 3. The purpose for which the award is required. The clarity and relevance of this statement will be crucial in the evaluation of the applicants 4. Letters from two academic references to support the application. Award winners are expected to write a short report, within one year of receiving the money, giving details of how the money was spent. The Trust has previously supported the continuation of research studies in biomedical interactions including molecular recognition processes and drug design; a novel combination of reaction indexing and synthesis planning; clustering of chemical structures for property prediction; and investigation of reaction mechanisms. The work of younger scientists in developing countries has also been made possible in conjunction with some of the awards. Recent award winners, and their areas of research, are as follows: - Marina Molchanova, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow (use graph theoretical and combinatorial algorithms in structure generation) - Weifan Zheng, University of North Carolina (QSAR and combinatorial chemistry) - Aniko Simon, University of Leeds (chemical literature data extraction) - Eugene Babaev, Moscow State University (computer-assisted synthesis) - Gareth Jones, University of Sheffield (for presentation of paper on genetic algorithms at an ACS National Meeting) - Vladimir Kvasnicka, Slovak Technical University (neural networks for prediction of physiochemical properties) - Rainer Herges, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg (reaction databases and quantum chemistry) Applications must be submitted by 31st July 1998, preferably by e-mail, to the Chairman of the Awards sub-committee, Professor Michael Lynch, at: Michael F Lynch <M.Lynch@sheffield.ac.uk> Any postal applications should be sent to: Janet Ash Secretary of the Chemical Structure Association Trust The Roundel Frittenden Cranbrook Kent TN17 2EP UK The Award will be presented at the International Chemical Information Meeting in Nimes in October. 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)