Warr Zone Revisited
Please bear with me while I explain a little about my own interests and ventures: some of the hyperlinks that follow may well interest you. You can read the lowdown on the Warr business and Warr Zone on our Web site (http://www.warr.com). The marketing message is outlined there (http://www.warr.com/whatwedo.html) but you will probably find David Bradley’s interview of me more interesting (http://www.reactivereports.com/55/55_0.html). I am proposing to do occasional interviews myself in this column: I welcome suggestions for your favorite gurus and the questions I might use when I grill them. Hugo Kubinyi has already volunteered to be my first victim. Hugo received the 2006 Herman Skolnik Award of the Chemical Information Division (http://www.acscinf.org/) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the Fall 2006 National ACS Meeting in San Francisco and I had the pleasure of attending the symposium (http://acscinf.org/dbx/mtgs/232nm/232cinfprogram.asp) he organized to mark the occasion. Send me an email if you would like to know more. My second interviewee will probably be in industry: watch this space.
Over the last year or two, I have done some work on the history of cheminformatics. Back in 2000 I looked at cheminformatics as an emerging discipline (http://www.warr.com/warrzone2000.html) and in 2005 I researched two talks on Twenty Five Years of Progress in Cheminformatics, one as a tribute to Peter Willett (http://www.warr.com/25years.html) and the other in honor of Johnny Gasteiger (http://www.warr.com/yearprog.pdf). I gave a more light-hearted tribute to Johnny at the 2nd German Conference on Cheminformatics in November.2006: the slides are online (http://www2.chemie.uni-erlangen.de/people/Johann_Gasteiger/WendyWarr_Presentation_Goslar2006.pdf).
Many more open access publications appear in Warr Zone (http://www.warr.com/warrzone.html) or elsewhere (http://www.warr.com/epubs.html) on the Warr Web site. Our links page (http://www.warr.com/links.html) and events listings (http://www.warr.com/meetings.html) have proved particularly popular. As an Associate Editor of the ACS Journal of Chemical information and Modeling, I clearly have a great interest in the peer review process and my experience (http://www.warr.com/warrzone2004.html) is on open access.
At the Spring ACS National meeting in 2008, I will be organizing a symposium on the cheminformatics challenges of collaborations between the big, global pharmaceutical companies and smaller enterprises (including academic groups). I welcome suggestions for topics that I might include. The symposium will be jointly sponsored by the Chemical Information Division of ACS and the Chemical Structure Association (CSA) Trust (http://www.csa-trust.org/).
The CSA Trust is an internationally recognized organization established to promote the critical importance of chemical information to advances in chemical research. In support of its charter, the Trust has created a unique Grant Program, renamed in honor of Professor Jacques-Émile Dubois who made significant contributions to the field of cheminformatics. The Trust is currently inviting the submission of grant applications for 2007 (http://www.csa-trust.org/awards.htm). I will conclude by inviting you all to pass on this announcement to any potentially worthy researchers. |
