Biochemical Society - Breakthrough Science - Integration of drug discovery and systems biology

Abstract Submission

Integration of drug discovery and systems biology

The Geological Society, Burlington House, London, UK

Chairs:

Christopher Southan (EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)

Brian Austen (St. George's University of London, UK)

Friday 28 November 2008

10:30 - 11:00 Registration with coffee/tea

11:00 - 11:15

Introduction

Christopher Southan (EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)

11:15 - 11:45

PubChem: an open repository for chemical structure and biological activity information

Steve Bryant (National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA)

11:45 - 12:15

Drug discovery in an academic setting: the why and how

Paul Wyatt (University of Dundee, UK)

12:15 - 13:45 Lunch and networking session

13:45 - 14:15

ChEMBL - a portal between biological and chemical worlds: empirical data driving drug discovery

John Overington (EBI, Cambridge, UK)

14:15 - 14:45

What information validates targets and do we have enough of it?

Steve Foord (GlaxoSmithKline, UK)

14:45 - 15:15

Transporter-mediated drug uptake: a problem of systems biology

Paul Dobson (Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, UK)