The latest RSC CICAG newsletter is now available http://www.rsccicag.org/indexhtmfiles/CICAG%20Newsletter%20Winter%202022-23%20FINAL.pdf.

This is a really bumper issue

Contents Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group Chair’s Report
CICAG Planned and Proposed Future Meetings
Social Media Migration – Opening up Mastodon as a Tool for Scholarly Communication
Cheminformatics: A Digital History ‒ Part 2. A Personal Perspective of the Role of the Web During the Period 1993-1996
InChI Technical Developments
Update from the Royal Society of Chemistry Library
The Open Free Energy Project
Meeting Report: SCI-RSC Workshop on Computational Tools for Drug Discovery 2022
A Crystallography Papermill: The CSD Response
Meeting Report: Ultra-Large Chemical Libraries
Open Science in the Royal Society of Chemistry
The Davy Notebooks Project
This JACS Does Not Exist: Generating Chemistry Abstracts with Machine Learning
Meeting Report: RSC-CICAG and RSC-BMCS 5th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Conference.
EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC: an Open-access Research Infrastructure for Chemical Biology and Early Drug Discovery
DECIMER ‒ An Open Toolkit for Optical Chemical Structure Recognition and Document Analysis
Cryo-EM for Industrial-Scale Structure-Based Drug Design
Cryo-EM & Drug Discovery
2022 CSD Updates
News from ACS CINF
News from CAS
RSC Databases Update
UKeiG: Winners of the Prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award 2022
AI4SD News
Book Review: Digital Transformation: New Tools and Methods for Mining Technological Intelligence
Cheminformatics and Chemical Information Books
2022 Reflections on Life at the Catalyst Science and Discovery Centre and Museum in Widnes
Other Chemical Information News

Contributions to the CICAG Newsletter are welcome from all sources ‒ please send to the Newsletter Editor Dr Helen Cooke FRSC: email helen.cooke100@gmail.com

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The RSC CICAG newsletter is now available

http://www.rsccicag.org/indexhtmfiles/CICAG%20Newsletter%20Summer%202022%20FINAL pdf

Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group Chair’s Report 4
Your CICAG Committee - Introducing Our New Members 5
CICAG Planned and Proposed Future Meetings 6
Free Workshops on Open-Source Tools for Chemistry 7
The COVID Moonshot 7
Practical Cheminformatics with Open-Source Software 11
The Catalyst Science and Discovery Centre Archives 12
Chemical Data Recovery 3: Legacy Chemical Data Recovery 15
Svante Wold, 1941-2022 22
Cheminformatics: a Digital History - Part 1 Early days at Sheffield: a Personal Perspective 23
Being #CompChemURG: Forging New pathways 28
UKeiG Call for Nominations for the Prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award 2022 29
Welcome to the New Era of Scientific Publishing 30
Greg Landrum Receives the Mike Lynch Award 37
Bioinformatics in the Post-AlphaFold 2 Era 38
Diana Leitch – Reflections on her Life in Chemistry, Chemical Information and Librarianship 45
Meeting Report: AI in Drug Discovery 50
AI4SD News 53
The IUPAC Green Book 55
RSC Historical Group – Women in Chemistry Symposium 56
ACS CINF Report for July 2022 57
News from CAS 57
Chemical Information / Cheminformatics and Related Books 59
Other Chemical Information News 61

We have already started compiling content for the winter newsletter, if you have suggestions or would like to contribute please get in touch.

 

The latest RSC CICAG newsletter (Winter 2020) is now available http://rsccicag.org/newsletters.htm. It includes:-

Chemical Information & Computer Applications Group Chair's Report
CICAG Planned and Proposed Future Meetings
Memories of Dr Angus McDougall, 1934-2020
CASP14: DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 – an Assessment
Meeting Report: 3rd RSC BMCS & CICAG AI in Chemistry Meeting
ReadMe and HowTo for Lightning Poster Presentations
As Conferences went Online: What do we miss the most?
Alan F Neville, 1943-2020, BSc, PhD
Parallel Processing for Molecular Modeling in ChemDoodle 3D
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre & Museum Trust: A Year in Review
The 6th Tony Kent Strix Annual Memorial Lecture 2020
Open Chemical Science Meetings and Workshops - Introduction
Open Access Publishing for Chemistry – Meeting Reports
Open Data for Chemistry – Meeting Reports
Open Source Tools for Chemistry – Workshop Reports
RSC Open Access Journals and Future Plans
RSC’s Journal Archives Available for Text and Data Mining
Chemical Information / Cheminformatics and Related Books
News from AI3SD 64 Other Chemical Information Related News

 

The latest RSC Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group newsletter is out.

https://www.rsc.org/images/CICAGNewsletterSummer2020tcm18-252147.pdf

• Chemical Information & Computer Applications Group Chair's Report
• CICAG Planned and Proposed Future Meetings
• Open Chemical Science Online Webinars & Workshops in 2020
• Time to add "Cheminformatics" to Keywords Indexing Science
• COVID-19 and the Identification of "Drug Candidates"
• DP4-AI: High-Throughput Automatic Assignment of NMR Spectra
• The Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 Release 7.1
• Meeting Report: AI & ML in Drug Discovery Meeting
• Predicting the Activity of Drug Candidates when there is no Target
• News from CAS
• News from AI3SD
• Other Chemical Information Related News

Huge thanks to all who contributed.