Chemical Information and Computation 2005, Number 1 Report on the 229th ACS National Meeting and Exposition Our report on the Spring 2005 National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, held in San Diego, went to press in August. Apart from the usual news section, covering about 70 companies, this 160-page report, with colour graphics, carries transcripts of all the presentations given in the award symposium honouring Peter Willett as winner of the COMP Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, plus transcripts of papers on the future of scientific publishing, safe exchange of chemical information, ADME, molecular mechanics and simulation, and drug discovery. The last of the 34 transcripts records the open meeting of the ACS committees on ACS Publications and CAS. The line up of speakers includes Steve Bachrach, Pieter Bolman, Bob Clark, Tim Clark, Jason Cole, Simon Coles (Southampton), John Delaney, René Deplanque, Jonathan Essex, Johnny Gasteiger, Steve Heller, Chris Lipinski, Larry Marnett, Brian Masek, Peter Murray-Rust, Anthony Nicholls, Marc Nicklaus, Tudor Oprea, Stephen Pickett, Henry Rzepa, Mark Seierstad, Bill Town, Andrea Twiss-Brooks, Eric Vangrevelinghe, Hugo Villar, Wendy Warr, Peter Willett, Ann Wolpert, and others. The full contents list is available at http://warr.com/morepubs.html. 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