The 5th Meeting on US Government Chemical Databases and Open Chemistry is scheduled to take place in Maryland, US on August 25 and 26, 2011. The scientific programme is expected to be of particular interest to readers of Journal of Cheminformatics.
The meeting will bring together people dealing with small-molecule databases and associated data sets at various US government agencies, as well as other experts and contributors to public resources in the fields of cheminformatics and chemical databases. Several of the speakers feature on the Editorial Board of Journal of Cheminformatics. These include Martin Walker, who will discuss the validation of chemical data on Wikipedia, and Jean-Claude Bradley, who along with Andrew Lang, will present his work on collection, curation and modelling of open melting point measurements.
Other notable presentations include "Improving the quality of chemical databases with community-developed tools (and vice versa)" from Noel O'Boyle, and "PubChem: A significant resource for scientists" from Evan Bolton - author of the PubChem3D thematic series.
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