This may be of interest to folks in the Boston area ... -Chris Begin forwarded message: > From: "Lenore Cowen" <cowen at cs.tufts.edu> > Date: November 7, 2006 1:14:19 PM EST > To: bcb-seminar at cs.tufts.edu, bambct-list at molbio.mgh.harvard.edu > Subject: [Bambct-list] Tufts BCB seminar Wednesday 11/8/06: Peter > V. Henstock at 5pm > > Please join us for this week's Bioinformatics and Computational > Biology Seminar Series on November 8: Wed, 5-6pm > > Speaker: Peter V. Henstock > > Affiliation: Pfizer > > Title: "Computational Approaches for Identifying Optimal Compounds in > Drug Discovery" > > Abstract: > > > Over the past several years, computer science research has > significantly advanced the field of computational biology. Computer > science approaches can certainly impact a range of challenging > problems in computational chemistry and drug discovery but have > attracted far less attention. This talk will provide a general > overview of the drug discovery process and outline a few potential > research areas. The talk will focus on the problem of compound library > design that aims to identify optimal compounds from a large set > through several iterations of guided sampling. Techniques include > forming compound representations, clustering, diversity sampling, and > training predictive models. > > > The talk is in Halligan 106 > > Upcoming talks: > > November 15: Ron Milo, Harvard Medical School > November 29: Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard > > You can see everything on our seminar website: > > http://bcb.cs.tufts.edu/bcb-seminar.html > > including directions to campus and the room, speakers and titles, > and > if you didn't do so already, instructions on how to join our > electronic mailing list > in order to get future announcements. (please note; subscribing to > the mailing list is a 2-step process: once you hit subscribe, you > then > have to reply to the email you are sent to confirm you "really > want to > subscribe" ) > > Best, Lenore > > ---------------------------- > Lenore J. Cowen > Associate Professor > Dept. of Computer Science > Tufts University > http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~cowen/compbio > ---------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Bambct-list mailing list > Bambct-list at molbio.mgh.harvard.edu > http://amber.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/bambct-list