This international symposium will address a broad range of modern research topics in the field of Computers and Chemistry. Focus will be on recent developments and trends in the fields of Chemoinformatics and Drug Development, Chemical Information, Molecular Modeling, Computational Material Science and Nanotechnology and other highlights in the field of Computational Chemistry. The scientific program will include plenary lectures, short lectures as well as poster presentations. Furthermore, there will be a pre-conference workshop on Sunday.

I would like to highlight this year’s session on Open Access Publishing in Chemistry where we are going to investigate what’s happened and changed since our last session on this topic a few years ago.

Conference Web site:
http://www.gdch.de/gcc2008

Conference Venue: Hotel Der Achtermann, Rosentorstrasse 20, D-38640 Goslar, Germany.

If you register, you might want to take into account the conference dinner on Tuesday evening, which is included in the conference fee and typically a very nice event. Therefore, you should prepare to leave on Wednesday morning.

Goslar is located at the heart of Germany and famous for its ore mine (UNESCO World Heritage Site) and its old town.

Invited Speakers:

• Jürgen Bajorath
• Michael Berthold
• Marcus Elstner
• Robert Glen
• Kurt Varmuza
• Brian Andrew Vickery

Dead Lines:

• Submission of oral contribution: 29.07.2008
• Submission of posters: 29.07.2008
• Scholarship: 29.07.2008
• Submission of last-minute-poster: 28.10.2008

This international symposium will address a broad range of modern research topics in the field of Computers and Chemistry. Focus will be on recent developments and trends in the fields of Chemoinformatics and Drug Development, Chemical Information, Molecular Modeling, Computational Material Science and Nanotechnology and other highlights in the field of Computational Chemistry. The scientific program will include plenary lectures, short lectures as well as poster presentations. Furthermore, there will be a pre-conference workshop on Sunday. A special highlight of the conference will be the award of the Gmelin-Beilstein-Denkmuenze.

Conference Web site:
http://www.gdch.de/gcc2007

Conference Venue: Hotel Der Achtermann, Rosentorstrasse 20, D-38640 Goslar, Germany.

Goslar is located at the heart of Germany and famous for its ore mine (UNESCO World Heritage Site) and its old town.

Invited Speakers:

• Alexander Tropsha
• Tudor Oprea
• Juergen Bajorath
• Alexander Hillisch
• Thomas Frauenheim

Dead Lines:

• Submission of oral contribution: 31.07.2007
• Submission of posters: 31.07.2007
• Scholarship: 02.08.2007
• Submission of last-minute-poster: 05.11.2007

These scientists were members of a wide range of Chemical Societies of European countries such as SCF, RSC, GDCh, SCI as well as of organizations such as the QSAR and Modelling Society, Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society, and the Chemical Structure Association.

As a result of the workshop, a declaration calling for enhanced support for research and teaching in Chemoinformatics in Europe was published.

The 2. German Conference on Chemoinformatics will be held in Goslar, Germany, November 12-14, 2006. It will be a time to celebrate: The Chemistry-Information-Computers (CIC) division of the German Chemical Society will honor the life-time achievements of one of the founders of CIC and apioneer of chemoinformatics, Johann Gasteiger.

Additionally, the next GCC will be the 20. annual meeting of CIC.The program features an interesting collection of talks and posters in the following areas

• Chemoinformatics and Drug Development
• Chemical Information
• Molecular Modeling
• Computational Material Science

The conference language is English.