May 13th - 16th, 2002, Bozen, Italy.
The scientific program lists all speakers and lecture topics.
This workshop addressed the new challenges that face scientists in the post-genome era. In particular, the integration of two, until recently, disparate sciences - cheminformatics and bioinformatics. It is essential to bridge the gap between chemists, dealing with the intricacies of drug discovery, and biologists, working with complex cell physiological systems, in order to make any real and significant advances in the areas of molecular structure-function relationships and drug-target specificity.
The following themes were covered: knowledge discovery and data mining, rational drug design, prediction of small molecule bioavailability (ADME Tox) properties, protein structure and function determination, new methods of drug-target modeling, cellular metabolism, and the use of high-throughput methods (biochips) for acquiring gene expression and protein binding information.
Scientific Committee: Martin Hicks and Carsten Kettner, Beilstein-Institut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.