Chemical Information and Computation 2008, Number One 235th ACS National Meeting and Exposition New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008 The contents list is on the Web at http://www.warr.com/morepubs.html. The report includes: * news from more than 70 companies (including some not exhibiting) * condensed press releases for the first six months of 2008 * accurate transcripts of presentations, complete with color figures and literature references, with the following themes: * public cheminformatics resources * cheminformatics implications of collaborations between academia and industry * cheminformatics education * challenges in structure searching * open meetings of the ACS committees on ACS Publications and CAS * report of a panel discussion on evolving use of chemical information, touching on topics such as networked biology, visualization, small molecules and properties, searching and Web 2.0, generating knowledge, search interfaces, serendipity, recommendations, text mining, data quality, data capture and data sharing. Our 140-page reports provide twice-yearly updates on the state of the art in chemical information, computational chemistry and electronic publishing. Contact me by email for further details. 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 <http://www.warr.com/>