Previous Meetings
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.
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Abstracts of the Meeting
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Searching Chemical Patents/Applications at the IP Office - Chris Archer
PDF (846k)
I Should Really Be Searching Patents - Yvonne Pope
PDF (675k)
Markush Structure Searching - John Bernard
PDF (679k)
Marpat Searching in Context - Stuart Newbold
PDF (1041k)
Patent Analysis and Mapping - Neil Edwards
PDF (934k)
Freedom To Operate Searching - Dr Michelle Pratt
PDF (311k)
Commercialising Chemistry - Prof. Graham Richards, CBE
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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.
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Scientific Text and Data Mining - Abstract
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Annotating Chemical Names – Peter Corbett
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Analysis and Visualisation Tools - Jeanette Eldridge
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Semantic Searching of Digital Repositories based on Text Mining - Sophia Ananiadou
PDF (5331k)
Mining Scientific Information - pitfalls and possibilities - Neil Stutchbury
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Mining and Meaning - Richard Kidd
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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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What Makes Chemical Information Different
David Walsh, Pfizer
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Searching for Chemicals on the Internet
Teresa Loughbrough, Unilever
PDF (2017k)
Chemical Structure Drawing Packages
Dr Don Parkin, Daresbury Laboratory
PDF (1533k)
Overview of Structural Databases on STN
PDF (697k)
RSC Virtual Library
PDF (287k)
Substructure Searching
Yvonne Pope, SII for CAS
PDF (1956k)
Introduction to Reaction Searching
Jasen Chooramun, AstraZeneca
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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November 2002 Meeting
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Recent Developments in Cheminformatics Education
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Development of the Electronic Infrastructure
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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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Balancing the Budget: Cost Effectiveness of Provision of Chemical Information
4 October 2000
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