I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new self-study electronic learning guide for cheminformatics, available at http://cheminfov.informatics.indiana.edu/djwild/ic/ . Details are below - please let me know if you have questions.
*Introducing Cheminformatics: an intensive electronic self-learning guide for new practitioners* is a self-study guide designed to provide a rapid introduction to the emerging field of cheminformatics, including the history of the field, representing 2D and 3D chemical structures on computer, storing and using databases of chemical and related biological information, handling chemical information on the web and in the scholarly literature, and giving an overview of some advanced topics such as clustering and diversity, QSAR and predictive modeling, 3D alignment and docking, and writing cheminformatics software. It is aimed at life scientists, computer scientists, scientific librarians and other practitioners in both industry and academia who need a rapid, flexible introduction to this field, at low cost relative to traditional courses, and with maximum flexibility - not requiring attendance at lectures or submission of assignments by a set date.The areas covered are: - The history and current practice of cheminformatics - Representing 2D chemical structures on computer - Characterizing 2D structures with descriptors and fingerprints - Storing and searching 2D structures in databases - Handling chemical reactions on computer - Representing 3D chemical structures on computer - Chemical structures on the web and in the scholarly literature - Cheminformatics in the chemistry library - Analyzing chemical datasets using clustering and diversity - Predicting biological activities of chemical compounds - Working with 3D chemical structures - Programming toolkits for cheminformatics On completing the guide, students will be eligible to take an online test (will be available early March 2012). Upon achieving a satisfactory score, students will receive a certificate of completion from the author (not associated with a University). The guide is written by David Wild., who has over 20 years experience in the field of cheminformatics, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. There he directs one of the few educational programs dedicated to cheminformatics, and leads a research group of approximately 15 students focused on large-scale data mining and aggregation of chemical and biological information. He is Editor-in-Chief (along with Chris Steinbeck at the EBI) of the Journal of Cheminformatics, and works as editorial advisor or reviewer to many journals. He is involved in several cheminformatics organizations including being a trustee of the Chemical Structure Association Trust and a member of the American Chemical Society. He has helped organize many conferences and symposia in this field. He is also the director of Wild Ideas Consulting, a small scientific computing company specializing in informatics and cheminformatics. In addition to the guide, other cheminformatics education opportunities can be found at http://djwild.info/ed David ____________________________________________________ Dr. David J. Wild, [email protected], http://djwild.info Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing Director, Cheminformatics & Chemogenomics Research Group Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing 150 S. Woodlawn Rm 330B, Bloomington, IN 47405 Tel. +1 812 856 1848 _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
