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The Future Information Needs of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry


Monday 28th November 2011 

An interesting and thought provoking day where an excellent selection of speakers from the world of chemical information discuss some of the new tools already in use, and their research and thoughts for how the scientist and information professional of the future will utilize pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry information.


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The Future Information Needs of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry
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Summary by Wendy Warr
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Adapt and Survive: The Way Forward is Research IS
Dr Wendy Warr, Wendy Warr & Associates
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ChEMBL Database: Meeting Chemical and Biological Information needs of Scientists of the Future
Anne Hersey, EMBL-EBI
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Pharmacologial Information discovery with Open PHACTS
Richard Kidd, Royal Society of Chemistry
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Meeting the Challenges of the Pharmaceutical Market, a Publisher Perspective
Paul Peters, CAS
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Some Reflections on the Past and Future
Dr Bill Town, Kilmorie Consulting
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Celebrating the History of Chemical Information


29 November 2010

A joint one-day meeting with the Historical Group and CSA Trust celebrating the history of chemical information. Provides a unique opportunity to hear from some of those who have contributed to the very significant developments which have occurred in the last few decades.



Chemical Information for the Chemist and Non-chemist


19 May 2010

A one day 'Training' course for librarians, information scientists,researchers and anyone with an interest in chemistry consisting of a series of presentations providing an impartial and critical overview of chemical information products, given by specialists from academia, vendors and industry.



Should I Really Be Searching Patents


28 October 2009

A one day overview for anyone with an interest in understanding the patent literature relevant to chemistry.



Scientific Text and Data Mining


20 May 2009

This meeting explored the tools and methods for mining chemical information such as text, structures and data.



Chemical Information for the Non Chemist


29 October 2008

This one day 'training' course continued the successful meetings held 2 and 4 years ago with a series of presentations providing an impartial and critical overview of Chemical Information products, given by specialists from academia, vendors and industry.


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October 2008 Meeting
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Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences


22 May 2008

The meeting provided an update of developments in the Open Access area of publishing in the chemical sciences, with eight presentations representing views of publishers, academics, librarians, information providers and the chemical industry.


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May 2008 Meeting
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1st November 2006 - Chemical Information for the Non-Chemist


Held at Burlington House, London
Organised jointly by CSA Trust and RSC-CIG

This one day training course continued the successful meeting last held two years ago. Presentations were intended for the non chemist that has to find and use chemical information.


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November 2006 Meeting
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6 June 2006 - Electronic Laboratory Notebooks


This was a joint meeting with the Computer Applications Subject Group and covered a topic of great current interest. An international team of expert speakers presented a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art of electronic laboratory notebooks, including what ELNs are, why you should consider moving to them if you have not already done so, and guidance on how to plan and manage the implementation of an ELN project.

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June 2006 Meeting
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6 April 2005 - Your Chemical Information – Unlocking the Value


Held at Burlington House, London 

The meeting dealt with important issues relating to how organisations can best store and retrieve their chemical information to maximise its value to their business. It covered both structural, textual and numeric information, current and archival, external and internal, paper and electronic data.


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April 2005 Meeting
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CIG Meetings 2004


12 October 2004 - One Day Training Course on Chemical Information for the Non-chemist

30 March 2004 - Chemical Information from Ac to Zr

A full program of eight speakers showed that there is a wealth of chemical information available in other areas beside organic chemistry and patents.


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October 2004 Meeting
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March 2004 Meeting
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CIG Meetings 2003


30 October 2003 - One Day Training Course on Chemical Information

Organised jointly by CSA Trust and RSC-CIG This one day training course contained a series of presentations which provided an impartial and critical overview of Chemical Information products. It was given by specialists from academic information departments, vendor representatives and the pharmaceutical industry.

27 May 2003 - The Future of Chemical Information in the UK

The meeting had been organised at the suggestion of, and in close liaison with, the RSC Librarian, Nigel Lees.


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May 2003 Meeting
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October 2003 Meeting
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CIG Meetings 2001 - 2002


20 November 2002 - Information at the Chemistry/Biology Interface

As the boundaries between Chemistry and Biology become increasingly indistinct, this meeting looked at new initiatives being developed to stimulate information exchange between these two subject areas.

18 April 2002 - Chemical Information: Maximizing the Opportunities and Minimizing the Challenges

This UKOLUK meeting was held in conjunction with CIG. Themes for the meeting ranged from delivering an information service in academia and industry, evaluating databases to aid purchase decisions to the new PsiGate Internet gateway, the RSC Library and Information Centre and the Chemoinformatics course at Sheffield.

15 March 2001 Electronic Access to Published Papers in Chemistry

The advent of the world-wide web and electronic publishing is changing the face of scholarly publishing beyond all recognition. The trend away from journals towards access to individual papers is already starting, but how far has it gone and how far will it go? 



4 October 2000 - Balancing the Budget: Cost Effectiveness of Provision of Chemical Information


This was a joint meeting of the Chemical Structure Association and the CIG. The talks were organised so that views of different interest groups (suppliers, intermediaries, academic and commercial users) could be heard.

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