Cercia Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Cheminformatics

2nd March 2006, 9:00 - 17:00

09:00 - 09:20 Registration and Coffee
09:20 - 09:30 Introduction by Dr John Bullinaria (Deputy Cercia Director)

Morning: Evolutionary Computation in Cheminformatics

09:30 - 10:00 Applications of Evolutionary Computation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Cercia Perspective
Dr Thorsten Schnier, Cercia
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome by Professor Les Clark, PVC, University of Birmingham
10:10 - 10:40 Multi Objective Evolutionary approaches to Drug Discovery
Dr Stephen Pickett, GlaxoSmithKline
10:40 - 11:00 Tea Break
11:00 - 11:40 Using Genetic Algorithms to Design and Patent Bactericidal Peptides
Ian Stott, Unilever Research
11:40 - 12:10 Evolving Predictors of Molecule-Cytochrome Interaction for Drug Discovery
Dr Steven Barrett, GlaxoSmithKline
12:10 - 14:00 Student Poster Presentation (lunch is provided)

Afternoon: Other Computational Intelligence Techniques in Cheminformatics

14:00 - 14:30 Can discover informatic cure the ills of pharmaceutical R&D? Dr Wendy Warr, Wendy Warr & Associates
14:30 - 15:00 Data Mining for Product Formulation Using Neural Computing
Dr Elizabeth Colbourn, Intelligensys Ltd
15:00 - 15:30 Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00 Computational Intelligence in the Chemical Industry
Dr Elsa Jordaan, Dow Chemical Company
16:00 - 16:30 Computational Nanoscience: From Clusters to Proteins via Nature-inspired Computation
Dr Roy Johnston, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham
16:30 - 16:40 Feedback and closing by Dr John Bullinaria (Deputy Cercia Director)

Where is the Workshop?

The workshop is taking place at the Conference Park (Lucas House), University of Birmingham. The Conference Park website provides details of Lucas House and directions. The University also provide general directions on getting to the University Campus. Lucas House is marked as building 67 on the University maps.