If you are interested in knowing more contact the organizers listed below.
Darren R Flower
The group's areas of interest would include the following:
o protein sequence analysis
o modelling by homology
o structure based design
o protein structure analysis
o structure prediction, inverse folding, and modelling by analogy
o software review and feedback
The PMDG should provide an opportunity to discuss general methodology, new
approaches to old problems, experience with software, and to present case
studies. The group will aim to draw its membership primarily from industry and
academia in the UK and be aimed at molecular modellers, bioinformatics
scientists, and methods developers; thus it will hopefully prove a useful
interdisciplinary forum.
The PMDG exists to serve members needs and to pursue commonly agreed objectives: the PMDG will be what you make it.
INAUGURAL MEETING: PMDG-1
The first meeting of the Protein Modelling Discussion Group (PMDG) was
held at Astra Charnwood in Loughborough on October 18 1995. The meeting was
attended by around 40 research scientists from UK industry and academia. The
meeting was hosted by Darren Flower, Department of Physical Chemistry and
BioAnalysis, Astra Charnwood.
The meeting was opened by Dr Phil Marshall, kindly deputising for Dr David Payling - director of Physical Chemistry and BioAnalysis. Dr Marshall welcomed the delegates on behalf of Astra Charnwood and wished the group well. During the day a number of distinguished external speakers gave talks reflecting the growing importance of protein modelling, protein sequence analysis, and structure-based design in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and biotechnology industries. The first lecture was delivered by Dr Terri Attwood, a Royal Society research fellow presently working at UCL. Dr Attwood described PRINTS: a database of protein sequence motif fingerprints which she has developed. This excellent talk was followed by one of equal quality given by Dr Frank Blaney, of SmithKline Beecham pharmaceuticals, on the subject of modelling G- protein coupled receptors. Dr Mansoor Saqi, of Glaxo Wellcome, closed the morning session with a thought-provoking lecture on low complexity protein sequences and their occurrence in protein structures. After a lunch and poster session, the afternoon session started with a talk by Dr Alan Mills, of Birkbeck College, about a collaborative course on the principles of protein structure run on the World Wide Web (WWW). Continuing the INTERNET theme, Dr Peter Murray-Rust, of Glaxo Wellcome, gave a glimpse of the future integration of chemical and biological data resources on the Net and outlined a new collaborative WWW course on structure based design.
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NEXT MEETING
The next meeting of the Protein Modelling Discussion Group (PMDG-
2) will take place on
March 25th 1996
at
Glaxo Wellcome Medicines Research Centre,
Gunnels Wood Road,
Stevenage,
SG12 ODP
Provisional Speakers include Rob Russell (ICRF), John Overington
(Pfizer), Russell Viner (Zeneca), David Osguthorpe (Bath), and David
Parry-Smith (Pfizer).
If you are interested in attending PMDG-2, please register your interest with either Mansoor Saqi (Glaxo Wellcome), Darren Flower (Astra Charnwood), or John Overington (Pfizer).
INTERNET
A newsgroup listserver, called IPMDG-L, has been established for
members of the PMDG. The list is hosted at Birkbeck college; it is
administrated by John Overington, who set it up with the kind help and
assistance of Alan Mills and Dave Houldershaw of Birkbeck. It is hoped that
this mailing list will allow communication of meetings and other information
relevant to the group, and also provide a useful forum for general discussion.
To subscribe to the list send a message with the contents:
SUBSCRIBE IPMDG-L {full name}
to listproc@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk.
To unsubscribe to the list, send the following text:
UNSUBSCRIBE IPMDG-L
To post to the list subsequently, send messages to:
ipmdg-l@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
If you have any problems with use of the newsgroup, please send
email to: overingtonj@pfizer.com.