Hi Paul, thanks for the introduction. I guess you saw the various Blue Obelisk dinner announcements for ACS conferences - they are open to everyone :-)
Cheers, Chris Paul A. Thiessen wrote: > Well, with the recent rash of introductions, I guess I should add > myself. I've been lurking on this list for a little while, and though > there hasn't been a whole lot of activity lately, I've been paying some > attention and seeing what I can learn. > > My name is Paul Thiessen. I've got a PhD in organic chemistry, but have > always liked computers better than the lab so am now strictly "virtual". > I've been working for Steve Bryant at NCBI for ~9.5 years now, wrote > Cn3D version 4, and have been on the PubChem team since PubChem started > 5 years ago. I do a lot of data handling, db optimization, sort of > infrastructure tasks... not a lot of highly visible stuff except for > chemical structure downloads, and PUG and PUG SOAP. (None of these > things is entirely mine, of course, as it's a team effort.) > > Anyway, I'm interested in new ideas and keeping up with this field. > However, let me state emphatically that I'm on this list strictly as an > individual on my own time, not in any way in my official capacity. I > absolutely can't talk about PubChem policy, make official pronouncements > about coming services, etc. So don't ask. ;) > > Perhaps someday I'll meet more of you in person; I think I've seen a few > of you at a distance at conferences over the years, or had contact with > you in other ways. > > Cheers, > > - Paul > -- Dr. Christoph Steinbeck Head of Chemoinformatics and Metabolism European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD UK Phone +44 1223 49 2640 What is man but that lofty spirit - that sense of enterprise. ... Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
