My report on the ACS Meeting, Washington, DC, August 16-20, 2009 is a bumper issue with 31 transcripts of papers on cheminformatics, federated search, and chemical text mining and public molecular databases, plus six months' worth of news from 80 companies. It includes presentations from the Herman Skolnik Award Symposium honoring Yvonne Martin. Contents list and order form at http://www.warr.com. (Note that the report itself will not be on the Web.) Apologies for multiple postings. 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<mailto:wendy@warr.com> http://www.warr.com<http://www.warr.com/>