Fwd: [Bambct-list] Tufts BCB seminar Wednesday 11/8/06: Peter V. Henstock at 5pm

This may be of interest to folks in the Boston area ...

-Chris

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> From: "Lenore Cowen" <[email protected]>
> Date: November 7, 2006 1:14:19 PM EST
> To: [email protected], [email protected]
> Subject: [Bambct-list] Tufts BCB seminar Wednesday 11/8/06: Peter  
> V. Henstock at 5pm
>
> Please join us for this  week's Bioinformatics and Computational
> Biology Seminar Series on November 8:  Wed, 5-6pm
>
> Speaker: Peter V. Henstock
>
> Affiliation: Pfizer
>
> Title: "Computational Approaches for Identifying Optimal Compounds in
> Drug Discovery"
>
> Abstract:
>
>
> Over the past several years, computer science research has
> significantly advanced the field of computational biology. Computer
> science approaches can certainly impact a range of challenging
> problems in computational chemistry and drug discovery but have
> attracted far less attention. This talk will provide a general
> overview of the drug discovery process and outline a few potential
> research areas. The talk will focus on the problem of compound library
> design that aims to identify optimal compounds from a large set
> through several iterations of guided sampling. Techniques include
> forming compound representations, clustering, diversity sampling, and
> training predictive models.
>
>
> The talk is in Halligan 106
>
> Upcoming talks:
>
> November 15: Ron Milo, Harvard Medical School
> November 29: Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
>
> You can see everything on our seminar website:
>
>  http://bcb.cs.tufts.edu/bcb-seminar.html
>
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>  Best, Lenore
>
>   ----------------------------
>    Lenore J. Cowen
>    Associate Professor
>    Dept. of Computer Science
>    Tufts University
>    http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~cowen/compbio
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