CINF E-News
Volume 7 Number 1Fall 2005
Edited by Bruce Slutsky
Table of Contents
/ Message from the Chair/ Editor's Note
/ CINF Sponsors
/ Membership in CINF
/ Reports from the Washington DC meeting
/ Technical Sessions
/ Awards
/ Herman Skolnik Award
/ CINF-IO Scholarship for Scientific Informatics
/ Lucille Wert Scholarship
/ Highlights from the ACS Council Meeting
/ Photos
/ CINF Trivia
/ CIC-CINF Meeting in Germany(Chemie-Information-Computer division of the GDC)
/ Chemical Informatics program at Indiana University
/ Sponsor Announcements
/ Elsevier MDL
/ Thieme Verlag
/ IO Informatics
/ John Wiley & Sons
/ CINF People in the News
Message from the Chair
Eileen Shanbrom
Dear Colleagues,
The ACS Washington Meeting has come and gone, and we are already busy planning for the Spring 2006 meeting in Atlanta.
The Division was very active in Washington. Outside of the many social events so generously supported by our sponsors, we had an opportunity to award three CINF-IO Informatics Scholarships for Scientific Excellence at our luncheon held Tuesday at the Morrison and Clark. On behalf of the Division I would like to thank Pat Rougeau and IO Informatics for their partnership in this program to reach out and recognize scholars, as it helps to support the mission of the CINF Division which is aimed at providing opportunities for career development and the recognition of excellence.
Very early on Saturday morning in Washington about 20 CINF Division members attended a long range planning meeting held to discuss the Division objectives related to growing the membership of the Division. In particular, this group of CINF members discussed the need to identify other societies so that we can reach out and broaden the opportunities for new members. The goal would be to make information about our Division available to the societies we identify. In return, CINF would plan to make information about their activities available to our members. By doing this we hope to promote the multidisciplinary nature of our activities. Pat Kirkwood, our current treasurer, is leading the effort to identify relevant societies.
Your Division Leadership just participated in a joint meeting of CINF and the German Computers in Chemistry society held in Germany this past month. The goal of this meeting was to identify mutual goals and areas where the two groups can work together for the benefit of both.
In addition, on Tuesday evening, the CINF Division received some great news! We were recognized and awarded the ChemLuminary award. This award recognizes the many 2004 CINF activities aimed at embracing outreach which is core to our mission. Our nomination was not limited to, but included the following activities:
1. Co-sponsored Career Symposia with the Younger Chemists Committee.
2. Held a Lunch box forum co-sponsored with ACS Committee on Science that was complementary to a technical session on Electronic Publishing. The attendance at this particular session was standing room only with approximately 100 attendees at the peak point.
3. We had CRM, SWRM, NERM, and SERMACS activities in 2004 including symposiums and workshops
4. Grace Baysinger of CINF established informational databases for use by libraries during National Chemistry Week. These databases are particularly valuable in outreach to the general public.
5. Co-sponsored with Women Chemists Committee a symposium focusing on women in leadership roles in both corporations and academia.
Below is apictureof Grace Baysinger and Leah Solla accepting the award on behalf of the Division.
Your Division Executives and Committee chairs appreciate your continued support and we look forward to making 2006 a great year for the Division. Please join us in Atlanta for the Division activities and the Long Range Planning Meeting which will once again be held on Saturday morning. And, if you have comments or would like to serve on a Committee and become more actively involved in the Division, please do not hesitate to drop me a note. We are always looking for volunteers.
My very best regards and wishes to all
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Editor's Note
by Bruce Slutsky
The CINF E-news is now an open access publication. In August the Executive Committee felt that the E-News would help the Division reach out to other chemical information professionals. Volume 7 Number 1 will be my last issue as editor. After serving as Chair of the Publications Committee for 6 years, I felt it was time to move to the Education Committee. It has been a pleasure to work withKerryn Brandt, David Flaxbart, Cathy Misner, Graham Douglas, Helen Yun, and Carol Carr. I would also like to thank all the contributors to the CINF E-news over the years.Beth Thomsett-Scottwill be the new editor of the CINF E-News. She is aChemistryand BiologyReferenceand Liaison Librarian in the Science and Technology Library at theUniversityofNorth Texas. She has been with UNT for 4 years and has held similar positions at two universities inCanadasince receiving her MLIS in 1995. Her B.Sc. and M.Sc. are in agriculture-related fields. Beth has been a member of CINF since 2002 and presented at the Careers Forum in March 2005. She also serves on the Careers Committee.Svetla Baykouchevawill be the new editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin. Until recently Svetla was the librarian at the American Chemical Society headquarters inWashington. She has just assumed the position ofChemistryLibrarian at theUniversityofMaryland.
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CINF Sponsors
submitted by Guenter Grethe
The Division of Chemical Information again was fortunate to receive generous financial support from our sponsors to maintain the high quality of the Division's programming at the 2005 National ACS Meetings in San Diego and Washington, to promote communication between members at social functions and to support other divisional activities during the year, including scholarships to graduate students in Chemical Information.
The Division gratefully acknowledges contribution from the following sponsors:
Platinum Level
ACS Publications Division
Chemical Abstracts Service
Elsevier MDL
Gold Level
Thieme Verlag
Silver Level
Chemical Diversity
IO Informatics
Springer Science + Business Media
Bronze Level
Accelrys
Rusch Consulting Group
Sunset Molecular Discovery
Wiley Interscience
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Membership in CINF
The Division of Chemical Information (CINF)of the American Chemical Society is the source for maintaining professional competency in information resources, information technology, and information policy. No other ACS Division is as relevant to the professional lives of all researchers involved in any aspect of chemical research. As one of approximately 1,400 divisional members and affiliates, you will learn about the most current developments and practical application in producing, accessing, and using chemical information.
CINF Mission
We are committed to providing leadership and an environment for the exchange of expertise among the producers and users of information in chemistry and related disciplines worldwide through high quality programs and through outreach, opportunities for career development, and recognition of excellence.
Membership and Annual Dues
Members of the American Chemical Society are entitled to full membership in the Division; non-ACS members may join the Division as Affiliates only.
Annual Dues
Affiliates / $17.00
Students / $ 2.00
Member Benefits
As a Member or Affiliate you will receive:
/ The Chemical Information Bulletin, a semiannual publication containing news, notes, and abstracts of papers to be presented at Divisional meetings./ Membership Directory of the Division of Chemical Information
/ A Divisional dues receipt card which entitles you to purchase, at reduced rates, bound copies of the collected abstracts of each national ACS meeting.
/ A reduced rate subscription toThe Scientist, a bi-weekly newspaper covering activities in the global scientific community.
/ CINF E-News,a semiannual electronic newsletter. Access to the current issue is provided only to CINF members and affiliates.
To join:
To join online, point your browser to theACS technical divisions application form
Or use the appropriate application form template:
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Reports from the Washington, D.C. National Meeting
Technical Sessions
Abstracts of papers presented at the recent Washington, D.C national meeting may be found at Many Powerpoint presentations are provided with expresspermission granted by the authors who retain the original copyright. These presentations are for information purposes only andcannot be further disseminated without the author's prior written permission.
Awards
Herman Skolnik Award
Lorrin Garsonwas presented with the 2005 Herman Skolnik Award at the Washington meeting. Florence Sumaray interviewed Lorrin for Livewire the online newsletter of the ACS Publications Division. This interview may be found at It includes a link to a complete listing of Lorrin's publications and presentations.
The following announcement was submitted by Bill Town:
I am pleased to be able to announce thatHugo Kubinyiis to receive the 2006 Herman Skolnik Award at the Fall ACS meeting in San Francisco.
Hugo Kubinyi was born in Vienna, Austria in 1940 and completed his studies of Chemistry in Vienna, Austria and at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany with a PhD Thesis on the Isolation, Structure Elucidation and Partial Synthesis of Phorbol Esters. From 1965-1966 he was at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany and in 1966 he moved to Knoll AG (now Abbott GmbH & Co. KG), Ludwigshafen, Germany where he was Research Scientist, Natural Products, Project Manager Chemical Research, and, from1972-1984, Department Head of Natural Products Research.
In 1985 he moved to BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany where he was Head of Drug Design (Molecular Modelling and Protein Crystallography) from 1987-1998, and Head of Combinatorial Chemistry and Molecular Modelling (including Protein Crystallography and Drug Design) from 1998-2001. From 1986 he was also
Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg,Germany.
In his career, he has received many awards and has published five books onQSAR, 3D QSAR, and Drug Design. He is also Editor of the book series Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry together with Prof. Raimund Mannhold, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, and Prof. Gerd Folkers, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He was Vice-Chair (1991) and Chair (1993) of the Gordon Research Conference"Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships", 1995-2000 Chair of < The QSAR and Modelling Society (Deputy Chair 2001-2005) and member of the Editorial Boards of the journals Current Drug Discovery, Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, Medicinal Chemistry Research, and Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships, Highlight Advisor of Nature Reviews in Drug Discovery (see also Nature's Discovery Portal) and a Member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of several software and start-up companies
CINF-IO Informatics Scholarship for Scientific Excellence
The scholarship program of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) funded by IO Informatics is designed to reward graduate students in chemical information and related sciences for scientific excellence and to foster their involvement in CINF.
Five scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be given out at both the Spring and Fall ACS National Meetings in a given year for a total of $10,000/year. Additionally, the winners will receive an annual license, free-of-charge, of IO Informatic's software Sentinent for their academic institution. The grants have been awarded for the first time at the 230th National Meeting of ACS in Washington, DC.
The first three winners of the CINF-IO Scholarship Award are:
Kunal Aggarwal, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ivan Tubert-Brohman, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, andJérôme Hert, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield.
Applicants must be enrolled at a certified college or university. They have to present a poster at the respective National Meeting. Abstracts for the poster have to be submitted according to ACS rules on or before the deadline for electronic submission using OASYS ( Point to the division (CINF) and select Poster session. Applications are accepted for the 2006 Spring ACS Meeting in Atlanta (March 26 - 30, 2006). The deadline for submission an abstract is November 23, 2005. Additionally, a 2,000-word long abstract describing the work to be presented has to be sent in electronic form before February 1st, 2006, to the chair of the selection committee . Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should be directed to the same e-mail address.
Winners will be chosen based on content, presentation and relevance of the poster and will be announced at the meeting. The content shall reflect upon the student's work and describe research in the field of chemoinformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked "Winner of the CINF-IO Informatics Scholarship for Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.
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Call for Applications: 2006 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship - Deadline February 15, 2006
Designed to help persons with an interest in the fields of Chemistry and Information to pursue graduate study in Library, Information, or Computer Science, the Scholarship consists of a $1500 honorarium.
The applicant must have a bachelor's degree with a major in Chemistry and related disciplines. The applicant must have been accepted into a graduate Library, Information, or Computer Science program in an accredited institution. Work experience in Library, Information or Computer Science preferred.
The deadline to apply for the 2006 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship is February 15, 2006. Details on the application procedures can be found at:
Applications (email preferred) can be sent :
Contact address:
Marge Matthews
633 Dayton Rd.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-3801
Phone: 610-525-0896
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Report from the August 31, 2005 ACS Fall Council Meeting, Washington, DC
submitted by Joanne Witiak
The Council of the American Chemical Society (ACS) met on August 31, 2005 in the JW Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC. It was a full meeting and was followed by a councilor briefing session on ACS executive compensation. Highlights of the session follow the contents summary below.
ACTIONS OF THE COUNCIL
Election Results
* The Committee on Nominations and Elections presented to Council the following slate of nominees for membership on the Committee on Committees for the 2006-2008 term: Cherlynlavaughn Bradley, William H. (Jack) Breazeale, Jr., Theodore M. Brown, Michael J. Brownfield, Peter K. Dorhout, Alan M. Ehrlich, Jurgen H. Exner, Mamie W. Moy, Connie J. Murphy and Don B. Weser. By written ballot the Council elected Cherlynlavaughn Bradley, William H. (Jack) Breazeale, Jr., Peter K. Dorhout, Mamie W. Moy, and Connie J. Murphy.
* The Committee on Nominations and Elections presented to Council the following slate of nominees for membership on the Council Policy Committee for the 2006-2008 term: R. Gerald Bass, Martha L. Casey, Alan B. Cooper, Catherine E. Costello, M. Elizabeth Derrick, Janan M. Hayes, Ann H. Hunt, Valerie J. Kuck, Bonnie A. Lawlor and Charles E. Thomas. Councilors were informed that Stephen T. Quigley was nominated as a petition candidate. By written ballot the Council elected R. Gerald Bass, Martha L. Casey, Janan M. Hayes, Valerie J. Kuck, andBonnie Lawlor.
* The Council Policy Committee presented to the Council the following slate of nominees for membership on the Committee on Nominations and Elections: David E. Bergbreiter, David S. Crumrine, Steven A. Fleming, Michelle M. Francl, Peter C. Jurs, Roger A. Parker, Robert A. Pribush, Sara J. Risch, Herbert B. Silber and John T. Yates, Jr. By written ballot the Council elected Steven A. Fleming, Michelle M. Francl, Peter C. Jurs, Roger A. Parker, and Sara J. Risch.
Candidates for President-Elect and Board of Directors
* The Council was informed that John W. Kozarich had withdrawn as a candidate for President-Elect. The candidates for the fall 2005 ACS national election were announced as follows:
President-Elect 2006
George E. Heinze, Rockland Technimed, Ltd, New York
Catherine T. Hunt, Rohm and Haas Company, Pennsylvania
Directors-at-Large - 2006-2008
James D. Burke, Retired, Rohm and Haas Company, Pennsylvania
Edwin A. Chandross, MaterialsChemistry, LLC, New Jersey
C. Gordon McCarty, Retired, Bayer Corporation; Adjunct Professor, University of South Carolina
Frankie K. Wood-Black, Conoco Phillips, Texas
Director, District III 2006-2008
Catherine C. Fenselau, University of Maryland
Madeleine M. Joullié, University of Pennsylvania
Director, District VI, 2006-2008
Bonnie A. Charpentier, Genitope Corporation, California
Stanley H. Pine, California State University
N&E Petition on election procedures withdrawn
* The Committee on Nominations and Elections withdrew its petition on election procedures prior to the spring national meeting. This action was to allow the committee to discuss further the issues raised by the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws and to solicit additional input from councilors and other members. The withdrawn petition appeared in the agenda for information only.
Fall meeting 13,040 registrants and 2006 National Meeting Registration Fee = $305
* As of August 30, 2005, the ACS fall national meeting had attracted 13,040 registrants as follows: Regular attendees 7,584; Students 2,715; Guests 478; Exhibit Only 468; and Exhibitors 1,795. The 2006 national meeting registration fee of $305 was announced.
Membership Statistics - 155,567 ACS members
* The Council was informed that as of July 31, 2005, total ACS membership was 155,567. This is an increase of 282 over the end of July 2004.
Special Discussion Item - Vision of ACS Future
* A special discussion item was again put on the Council agenda for this meeting. ACS President William F. Carroll described the process being used to develop a Society vision hypothesis that is to be tested with members, customers, governance and other interested parties. Dr. Carroll described the methods used to get member input at the national meeting. ACS national meeting attendees reported 15 common themes to be considered as important to the Society's future. Dr. Carroll sought Council input on the most frequent themes: diversity, young people, governance, multidisciplinarity, globalization and outreach. Councilors then engaged in a thoughtful, yet lively exchange of their vision of the Society's long-term future.
Local Section Action - change of New Mexico section territory
* On the recommendation of the Local Section Activities Committee, the Council approved a petition for change in section territory for the Central New Mexico Local Section. The annexation is intended to improve services to the ACS members in the northern New Mexico area.
Constitution and Bylaws
* On the recommendation of the Committee on Constitution and Bylaws, the Council approved revised charter bylaws for new local sections and for international chemical sciences chapters.
ACTIONS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board's Committees and Task Forces
* The Board, through its Committee on Grants and Award, approved the following: nominees for both the 2006 Perkin and Othmer Gold Medals; actions relative to pilot programs of the Petroleum Research Fund; continuation of the Fund's 1% distribution to the Green Chemistry Institute; and approval of a new national award, the ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry, sponsored by Prentice Hall Publishers.
* On the recommendation of the Board Committee on Public Affairs and Public Relations, the Board voted to designate the development of Rumford Baking Powder as a national historic chemical landmark.
* The Board approved actions resulting from the Member Satisfaction Survey, and from the Board-Presidential Task Force on Multidisciplinarity as prioritized by the Committee on Professional and Member Relations (P&MR). The Board also authorized P&MR to develop, or ensure the development of action plans for implementation of the task force recommendations in coordination with other appropriate Society entities.
* The Board also received a status report on the activities of the Joint Board-Council Policy Committee Task Force on Governance Review. This task force is charged with conducting a review of the Society's governance structure and Constitution and Bylaws to ensure that the Society has a governing framework to enable it to best fulfill its mission, meet member needs, and remain a world-class organization.
The Society's Promotion of Diversity
* The Board received reports from both the Committee on Professional Training (CPT) and the Committee on Minority Affairs (CMA). CPT briefed the Board on recent training workshops relative to historically black colleges and universities and other African American-serving institutions; and CMA overviewed activities of the ACS Scholars Program. The Board voted to continue the Scholars Program through 2010.
The Society's Publications
* The Board voted to approve the reappointment of several of its journal editors.
The Society's Staff
* The Board received a report from the Executive Director/CEO and several of her direct reports on the activities of the Publications Division, Chemical Abstracts Service and the Society's General Counsel. The Board also reviewed and approved recommendations from the Committee on Executive Compensation on compensation for the Society's executive staff. The compensation of the Society's executive staff receives regular review from the Board.
The Society's Finances
* The Board, through the Committee on Budget and Finance, voted to include requests for funding of the following programs in the development of the Society's 2006 proposed budget:
o A two-year pilot program for ACS High School Chemistry Clubs
o ACS activities in connection with the International Science and Engineering Fair
o A Leadership Development Program that delivers a pool of capable, effective and motivated leaders for volunteer roles throughout the Society
o Reauthorization of, and continued funding for the Green Chemistry Institute
o A complete reinvention of the Society's Web Presence
Councilor Briefing on ACS Executive Compensation
* ACS Councilors were invited to a special briefing on Society executive compensation following the Council meeting. The briefing focused on process: what the Society executive compensation system consists of and how it is benchmarked.