For better access, the PMDG web site is now mirrored from its US home to a site in the UK.
The PMDG
Protein Modelling and Protein BioInformatics is an increasingly important discipline within the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and biotechnology industries, as well as an important area of academic research and commercial software development. While other areas of molecular modelling, QSAR, and protein structure determination have their own specialist discussion groups, this fascinating but demanding area has had no dedicated forum for workers in the field to meet and discuss the subject. In order to remedy this imbalance, a discussion group has been established which will focus on protein sequence analysis, protein modelling, and structure-based design. The Protein Modelling Discussion Group, or PMDG for short, has been set up by two industrial scientists: Darren Flower at Astra Charnwood and John Overington at Pfizer Central Research.
If you are interested in knowing more, contact the organizers, Darren R Flower, Mansoor Saqi, John P Overington, Rob Russell.
The PMDG is affiliated to the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society as a special interest group. Special meetings with this and other relevant groups are anticipated.
The group's areas of interest include the following:
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.
The 4th Meeting (PMDG-4) was held on Tuesday 28th April 1998 at:
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
Research & Development
New Frontiers Science Park (North)
Third Avenue
Harlow, Essex, CM19 5AW
The meeting was jointly hosted by the SmithKline Beecham UK Bioinformatics and Computational Chemistry Departments and is organised within SmithKline Beecham by Rob Russell, Evelyn Boyle and Mike Tennant. Mailto: russelr1@mh.uk.sbphrd.com or mailto: Rob_Russell-1@sbphrd.com
A newsgroup listserver, called ipmdg-l, has been established for members of the PMDG. The list is hosted at Venus Internet; it is administered by John Overington who set it up with the kind help and assistance of Alan Mills, formerly Birkbeck College, now running Venus Internet. 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.
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