PROGRAMME

 

MONDAY 18TH

9:00-10:30 Exhibition & Poster Setup at Octagon
9:45 and 10:15 Coaches from Stephenson Hall to Octagon
10:30-11:20 REGISTRATION at Octagon

Tea/Coffee
11:20-11:30 Welcome: Val Gillet
  SIMILARITY
Chair: Peter Willett
11:30-12:00 1. Ultrafast shape recognition for similarity search in molecular databases Pedro Ballester, University of Oxford ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
12:00-12:30 2. Comparing computational approaches over multiple datasets Anthony Nicholls, Openeye ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
12:30-14:00 Lunch, University House

  STRUCTURE-BASED DESIGN I
Chair: Bohdan Waszkowycz
14:00-14:30 3. Virtual screening enrichment studies: a help or hindrance in tool selection? Andrew Good, Bristol-Myers Squibb ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
14:30-15:00 4. HYDE: Towards an integrated description of hydrogen bonding and dehydration Ingo Reulecke, University of Hamburg ABSTRACT
15:00-15:30 5. Molecular docking for substrate identification: lessons learnt from the family of short-chain dehydrogenase/reductases Irene Nobeli, King's College, London ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
15:30-16:00 6. The use of protein-ligand interaction motifs in virtual screening Suzanne Brewerton, Astex Therapeutics Ltd ABSTRACT
16:00-16:30 7. Towards understanding and eliminating false positives in virtual screening Keith Davies, Treweren Consultants Ltd ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
16:30-17:30 MGMS AGM/
Poster Setup/
Coaches to Halls
17:30 Last Coaches to Halls
18:45-22:30 18:45 Coaches to Octagon
POSTER SESSION AND EXHIBITION at Octagon
Buffet Supper Sponsored by Tripos Inc.
22:00-22:15 Coaches to Halls

 

TUESDAY 19TH

8:30 Coaches to Octagon
  DERIVING STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS
Chair: John Delaney
9:00-9:30 8. Hit explosion with a novel graph matching algorithm Nicola Richmond, GlaxoSmithKline ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
9:30-10:00 9. Identifying maximally enriched scaffolds in HTS data sets Martin Packer, AstraZeneca ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
10:00-10:30 10. When worlds collide: looking for answers to "The Alignment Problem" Robert Clark, Tripos ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
  CLUSTERING
Chair: David Wild
11:00-11:30 11. Charting the chemical space: a rule-based, hierarchical method for the classification of chemical structures by scaffold Ansgar Schuffenhauer, Novartis ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
11:30-12:00 12. A spectral clustering approach for the analysis of screening data Mark Brewer, Evotec Ltd ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
12:00-14:00 Buffet Lunch at Octagon
POSTER SESSION AND EXHIBITION at Octagon
   
QSAR AND ADMET
Chair: Peter Gedeck
14:00-14:30 13. Modeling chemical reactions for drug discovery Johann Gasteiger, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
14:30-15:00 14. SyGMa: systematic generation of metabolites Markus Wagener, NV Organon ABSTRACT
15:00-15:30 15. Probabilistic approaches to classifying metabolic stability of early drug discovery compounds Anton Schwaighofer, Intelligent Data Analysis Group ABSTRACT
15:30-16:00 16. Automatic model building process Joelle Gola, BioFocus ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
16:00-16:30 17. The Discovery Bus: a novel software system for automating QSAR modelling Damjan Krstajic, Research Centre for Cheminformatics ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
16:30 Coaches to Halls/
15-20 minute break/
Coaches from Halls to Chatsworth
18:00-22:30 CONFERENCE DINNER, Chatsworth House
Sponsored by Chemical Computing Group and BioSolveIT

Dress code: smart, casual
22:30 Coaches to Halls

 

WEDNESDAY 20TH

8:15 Coaches to Octagon
  STRUCTURE-BASED DESIGN II
Chair: Matthias Rarey
9:00-9:30 18. Fragment-based de novo design Marcus Gastreich, BioSolveIT ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
9:30-10:00 19. SPROUT LeadOpt: protein structure based lead optimisation Peter Johnson, University of Leeds ABSTRACT
10:00-10:30 20. Maximum common binding modes: a novel consensus scoring concept using multiple ligand information Steffen Renner, Max Planck Institute ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee
  NEW ALGORITHMS AND TECHNIQUES
Chair: Stephen Pickett
11:00-11:30 21. Chemoinformatics in ABCD: where substance meets style Dimitris Agrafiotis, Johnson and Johnson ABSTRACT
11:30-12:00 22. Exploring virtual compound space with Bayesian statistics Willem van Hoorn, Pfizer ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
12:00-12:30 23. Interpretable correlation descriptors and compression-based similarity: new open source software Jonathan Hirst, University of Nottingham ABSTRACT  PRESENTATION
12:30-13:00 24. A web service infrastructure for chemoinformatics David Wild, Indiana University ABSTRACT PRESENTATION
13:00-14:30 Lunch, University House

DEPART


Poster Presentation Abstracts

POSTER SESSION 1:
Monday 18th June, 19:30 - 22:30

M1: Virtual Screening through Pharmacophore Fingerprint Discriminant Models
Sune Askjaer*, Morten Langgĺrd, Lena Tagmose and Tommy Liljefors (Abstract)

M2: FLAP: Fingerprint for Ligands and Proteins. Overview of Possible Applications.
S. Sciabola, G. Cruciani, M. Baroni, L. Aureli*, I. Cerbara and A. Topai (Abstract - Poster)

M3: Predicting Ligand Binding Atoms in Protein Binding Sites by Use of Cavity Fingerprints and Machine Learning Algorithms
Caterina Barillari*, Gilles Marcou and Didier Rognan (Abstract)

M4: An Efficient Virtual Screening Protocol for the Search of Adenosine Kinase Inhibitors
Savita Bhutoria* and Nanda Ghoshal (Abstract - Poster)

M5: Analysing High-Throughput Screening Data Using Genetic Programming and Reduced Graph Queries
Kristian Birchall*, Val Gillet, Gavin Harper, Stephen Pickett (Abstract - Poster)

M6: Virtual Screening Assisted by De Novo Design
Nicholas W. England, Robert C. Glen, and Nathan Brown* (Abstract)

M7: Computational Investigation of Bioactive Conformations of Drug-like Compounds
Ijen Chen (Abstract)

M8: Bias Data Fusion Using Turbo Similarity Searching
Jenny Chen*, John Holliday and John Bradshaw (Abstract - Poster)

M9: TIN is Non-commercial: a Combinatorial Compound Universe
Kristl Dorschner, David Toomey, Elma Keane, Elise Bernard, Marc Devocelle, Mauro Adamo, Kevin B. Nolan and Anthony J. Chubb* (Abstract)

M10: Detection of Similarity Between Metal-Containing Protein Cavities
Simon Cottrell* and Gerhard Klebe (Abstract - Poster)

M11: Laying the Loop: Modeling the Second Extracellular Loop of GPCRs and Its Implications on Structure-Based Virtual Screening
Chris de Graaf* and Didier Rognan (Abstract - Poster)

M12: Modelling Iterative Compound Development using a Self-avoiding Random Walk
John S. Delaney (Abstract - Poster)

M13: Improving Models of Transmembrane Domains of Class C GPCR using Property Conservation Analysis
Swetlana Derksen*, Tanja Weil and Gisbert Schneider (Abstract)

M14: Instant JChem, a Cheminformatics Workbench Designed for End User Chemists
T. Dudgeon*, P. Hamernik, G. Pirok, S. Dorant and F. Csizmadia (Abstract - Poster)

M15: The Beilstein Chemical Toolkit
B. Guenther, U. Fechner*, S. Michels, D. Koller, M. Nietfeld, U. Reschel and J. Zuegge (Abstract)

M16: Improvement of QSPR Models Using the “Divide and Conquer” Approach
Denis Fourches* and Alexandre Varnek (Abstract)

M17: Comparison of Alignment Methods: FieldAlign and ROCS
Obdulia Rabal, Eleanor Gardiner* and Val Gillet (Abstract - Poster)

M18: Evaluation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa deacetylase LpxC Inhibitory Activity of Dual PDE4-TNFa Inhibitors: A Multi-screening Approach
Rameshwar U. Kadam, Divita Garg*, Archana Chavan and Nilanjan Roy (Abstract - Poster)

M19: CypScore -A Quantum Chemistry based Approach for the Prediction of Likely Sites of P450-Mediated Metabolism
Andreas H. Göller*, Matthias Hennemann, Alexander Hillisch and Timothy Clark (Abstract - Poster)

M20: New Pharmacophore Constrained Gaussian Shape / Electrostatic / Colored Force Field Similarity Searching Tools: Virtual Screening and Denovo Design using KIN
Andrew C. Good* , Brian Claus and Andrew Tebben (Abstract)

M21: Chemoinformatics Analysis of Results Generated with Quantum Mechanical-Combinatorial Approach
Maciej Haranczyk*, John Holliday and Maciej Gutowskia (Abstract - Poster)

M22: Development of a Data Interpretation Tool for Surface Mass Spectrometry
Alex Henderson (Abstract)

M23: Chemoinformatics Approaches to Protein Pharmacology
Jérôme Hert*, Mickael J. Keiser, John J. Irwin and Brian Shoichet (Abstract)

M24: In silico Focused Library Design Leveraging Desktop Grid Infrastructure
Péter Hliva*, Ákos Papp,Gábor Pocze, Andre Lomaka, Mati Karelson, Gábor Gombás and József Kovács (Abstract)

M25: Comparison of Similarity Coefficients for Clustering and Compound Selection
Maciej Haranczyk and John Holliday* (Abstract - Poster)

M26: Similarity Search for Reactions Based on Condensed Reaction Graph Approach
Frank Hoonakker* and Alexander Varnek (Abstract)

M27: Protein-ligand Binding Site Comparisons using SitesBase
Richard M. Jackson (Abstract)

M28: Estimation of pKa for Druglike Compounds Using Semiempirical and Information-Based Descriptors
Stephen Jelfs*, Peter Ertl and Paul Selzer (Abstract - Poster)

M29: Novel Applications of Rule-based Methods for Multi-objective Optimization and Decision Support in Drug Discovery, using KEM
Nathalie Jullian*, Nathalie Jourdan and Mohammad Afshar (Abstract)

M30: E. coli vs P. aeruginosa deacetylase LpxC Inhibitors Selectivity: Surface and Cavity Depth Based Analysis
Rameshwar U. Kadam, Amol V. Shivange and Nilanjan Roy (Abstract)

M31: Fully Flexible Protein-ligand Docking with Elastic Potential Grids
Sina Kazemi* and Holger Gohlke (Abstract)

M32: Interaction Fingerprint Scoring in Virtual Screening of the scPDB Target Library
Esther Kellenberger*, Gilles Marcou, Nicolas Foata and Didier Rognan (Abstract - Poster)

M33: Prediction of pKa Values for Aliphatic and Aromatic Oxy-acids and Amines with Empirical Atomic Charge Descriptors
Thomas Kleinöder*, Jinhua Zhang and Johann Gasteiger (Abstract - Poster)


POSTER SESSION 2:
Tuesday 19th June, 12:00 - 14:00

T1: Compound Selection for Focused Screening: A Comparison of Different Ligand-based Classification Methods
Dariusz Plewczynski, Stéphane Spieser and Uwe Koch* (Abstract)

T2: Lead-Discovery in Anti-SARS Research using Pharmacophores
Markus Kossner*, Jan Dreher and Knut Baumann (Abstract)

T3: Enhancing Compound Acquisition and Library Design: Application of Supplier Information and Tailor-made Optimization Tools
Michael Krug (Abstract)

T4: Forager: A Search Agent for Multi-Objective Reverse QSAR Solutions
Robert J. Leahy* and David E. Leahy (Abstract)

T5: Assessing Different Classifiers for in Silico Prediction of Ames Test Mutagenicity
Jin Li*, Peter Dierkes, Steve Gutsell and Ian Stott (Abstract)

T6: Development and Analysis of a Plate Based Diversity Set
Jens Loesel (Abstract - Poster)

T7: Wavelet Compression of Three-dimensional Maps
Richard Martin*, Eleanor Gardiner, Val Gillet and Stefan Senger (Abstract - Poster)

T8: Towards High Throughput 3D Virtual Screening Using Spherical Harmonic Molecular Shape Representations
Lazaros Mavridis*, Brian D. Hudson and David W. Ritchie (Abstract)

T9: Linear and non-linear 3D-QSAR parallel approaches as computational strategy to predict the binding affinity of human A2A adenosine receptor antagonists
Lisa Michielan*, Magdalena Bacilieri, Karl Norbet Klotz, Giampiero Spalluto, Stefano Moro (Abstract)

T10: Inhibition of Protein-membrane Interactions by Compounds Selected via Structure-based Virtual Ligand Screening
Kenneth Segers, Olivier Sperandio, Markus Sack, Rainer Fischer, Maria A. Miteva*, Jan Rosing, Gerry A.F. Nicolaes and Bruno O. Villoutreix (Abstract)

T11: Customised Scoring Functions for Docking
Iain Mott*, Peter Gedeck and Val Gillet (Abstract - Poster)

T12: Structure-based Virtual Screening Against the Anti Apoptotic Protein Bcl-xL
Prasenjit Mukherjee*, Prashant Desai and Mitchell. A. Avery (Abstract)

T15: Neighbourhood Behaviour studies for Lead Optimisation
George Papadatos*, Val Gillet, Peter Willett and Iain McLay (Abstract - Poster)

T16: Development of a De Novo Design Tool using Reaction Vectors
Hina Patel*, Val Gillet, Beining Chen and Michael Bodkin (Abstract - Poster)

T17: An Investigation Into Free-Wilson Analysis[1] (FWA): Library Design & Lead Optimisation
Yogendra Patel*, Peter Willett, Val Gillet, Julen Oyarzabal and Trevor Howe (Abstract - Poster)

T18: Molecule Alignment using Shapelets
Ewgenij Proschak*, Matthias Rupp, Swetlana Derksen and Gisbert Schneider (Abstract - Poster)

T19: Analysis of Biologically Relevant Chemical Space using the Scaffold Tree – Towards Automated Strategies for Ligand Design and Scaffold Hopping
Steffen Renner*, Stefan Wetzel, Ansgar Schuffenhauer, Peter Ertl, Tudor Oprea and Herbert Waldmann (Abstract - Poster)

T20: Elimination of the Best Before Date in QSAR Modelling
Sarah L. Rodgers*, Andy M. Davis and Han Van De Waterbeemd (Abstract - Poster)

T21: Exploring Benchmark Dataset Bias in Ligand Based Virtual Screening using Self-Organizing Maps
Sebastian Rohrer* and Knut Baumann (Abstract)

T22: Evolution of Molecules Using Genetic Operators on Reduced Molecules
Vladimir Sykora (Abstract - Poster)

T23: Lifecycle Centred Drug Design and Implications for Discovery Outcomes
Dominic Szewczyk*, Robert Stevens, Simon Lister, Pierre Cart-GrandJean and Daniel Fall (Abstract)

T24: De Novo and Fast-Follower Design of Novel Therapeutic Compounds using Cosmos™
Jonatan Taminau*, Gert Thijs, Hans De Winter and Wilfried Langenaeker (Abstract - Poster)

T25: Virtual Screening for Novel TAR RNA Ligands with LIQUID: Scaffold-hopping Using a Combination of Automated Ligand Docking and Fuzzy Pharmacophore Modeling
Yusuf Tanrikulu*, Ewgenij Proschak, Manuel Nietert, Kristina Grabowski, Ute Scheffer, Michael Göbel and Gisbert Schneider (Abstract)

T26: SPECTRa : The Deposition and Validation of Primary Chemistry Research Data in Digital Repositories
Alan Tonge*, Jim Downing, Peter Murray-Rust, Peter Morgan, Henry Rzepa, Fiona Cotterill, Nick Day and Matt Harvey (Abstract - Poster)

T27: Molecular Similarity and QSAR Based on Molecular Surface Property Graphs
Vishwesh Venkatraman*, David Whitley, Brian Hudson and Martyn Ford (Abstract - Poster)

T28: Using Ligand Data to Derive the Size, Shape and Nature of a Protein Binding Site
Tim Cheeseright, Mark Mackey, Sally Rose, and Andy Vinter* (Abstract - Poster - Handout)

T29: Binding Site Analysis with Shape Descriptors
Martin Weisel* and Gisbert Schneider (Abstract - Poster)

T30: BioChemIsTree: Software-assisted Scaffold Tree Analysis of Large Compound Collections
Stefan Wetzel*, Karsten Klein, Ansgar Schuffenhauer, Peter Ertl, Steffen Renner, Petra Mutzel and Herbert Waldmann (Abstract)

T31: Multiple Objective Library Design and Evaluation using an Evolutionary Algorithm Constructed using an Off-the-shelf Data Pipelining Toolkit
Gareth Wilden (Abstract - Poster)

T32: Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for the Prediction of Cytochrome P450 Inhibition
David Wood*, Beining Chen, Robert Harrison, Peter Willett and Xiao Qing Lewell (Abstract)