Deadline for Registration at the Training Course
"Building Better QSARs" is 23rd April 2004
Building Better QSARs: A Training Course for New and Experienced
QSAR Practitioners - Sponsored by Umetrics
Building Better QSARs is a hands-on training course. It has been
developed for managers, scientists, students, technicians and others
of all abilities to increase their knowledge and skills in the area
of toxicological QSAR. It will take place on Sunday 9th May 2004
(before the start of the main Workshop) and will be held at Liverpool
John Moores University (about a 10 minute walk from the conference
venue).
The training course will comprise a series of lectures followed
by a workshop and practical demonstration of QSAR techniques.
The aims of the Building Better QSARs Training Course are to:
- introduce the history of QSARs
- discuss QSARs for predicting biological endpoints and physical
properties
- define the best descriptors for use in developing QSARs
- describe statistical analyses for developing QSARs
- discuss "best practice" for QSARs
- demonstrate hands-on modelling of data to build better QSARs
- demonstrations and hands-on calculations of physical properties
and construction of simple molecular models
The program of the Building Better QSARs Training Course is:
| Sunday 9th May 2004 |
| 9.30 |
Registration at Liverpool John Moores
University |
| 9.45 |
QSAR: Introduction and History
Dr John Walker, Interagency Testing Committee (ITC), Washington
DC, USA |
| 10.15 |
Biological Data in QSAR: Sources and Assessment
of Quality
Prof Terry Schultz, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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| 10.45 |
Calculation of Physicochemical Descriptors and
Molecular Properties
Dr Judith Duffy, Liverpool John Moores University |
| 11.15 |
Tea |
| 11.45 |
Development of QSARs: Regression Analysis, Definition
of Applicability Domain and Identification of Outliers
Dr Mark Cronin, Liverpool John Moores University |
| 12.15 |
Application of Toxicological QSAR: Toxicity Prediction
in the Development of New Chemical Entities
Prof John Dearden, Liverpool John Moores University |
| 12.45 |
Lunch |
| 14.00 |
Hands-on demonstrations
• Statistical
Analysis
• Physicochemical property calculation |
| 16.30 |
Close of Training Event |
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The program is subject to change
and alteration. |
All attendees of QSR2004 are encouraged to participate in this
Training Course, and PhD students and young researchers will be
given priority. Please note that the Training Course requires a
minimum number of participants to take place, and may be cancelled
(with full refunds) if this number is not achieved. The maximum
number of participants will be 30.
Thanks to the generous sponsorship by Umetrics the cost of the
Training Course has been reduced to:
Registered Students FREE
Academics £40
Non-Academics £60
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