From owner-chemistry#* at *#ccl.net Fri Nov 4 14:46:01 2005 From: "IEJMD iejmd^yahoo.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: IEJMD special issue dedicated to Professor Lemont B. Kier Message-Id: <-29884-051104134216-21869-r2CBBB8Ehq66vRJ9O9nSow+*+server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: IEJMD Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:40:10 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: IEJMD [iejmd%yahoo.com] First Circular - Call for Papers Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design, http://www.biochempress.com Special Issue - dedicated to Professor Lemont B. Kier on the occasion of the 75-th birthday. You are invited to contribute a paper to the special issue of the Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design, http://www.biochempress.com, dedicated to Professor Lemont B. Kier. If you decide to contribute a paper, please note these important deadlines: - Title of the manuscript and authors submitted by Email to iejmd() yahoo.com : December 1st, 2005 - Manuscript submitted by Email to iejmd() yahoo.com : March 1st, 2006 All papers submitted for publication in the Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design must be prepared by using the Word template file IEJMD_template.doc, available from http://www.biochempress.com or from ftp://biochempress.com/Docs/IEJMD_template.doc The topic of the paper can be any original contribution regarding computer-assisted molecular design applications in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, chemical and pharmaceutical industry, including: - Computer-aided organic synthesis - Chemical structure and reactivity investigated with molecular mechanics, quantum chemistry, and molecular dynamics methods - Definition, calculation and evaluation of novel structural descriptors - Chemical database searching, clustering, similarity and diversity measure - Prediction of physico-chemical properties with Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships (QSPR) - Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) models for biological activity, toxicity, mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity - Prediction of chromatographic retention parameters and design of stationary phases for chromatography - Modeling of bioorganic compounds, such as proteins, enzymes, and nucleic acids - New algorithms for modeling chemical and biochemical phenomena, such as global optimization methods, simulated annealing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, ant colony algorithm - Design of special materials, catalysts, high energy compounds, polymers, molecular machines If you have any questions regarding this special issue, please contact me by E-mail at: iejmd() yahoo.com If you want to contribute a paper, but need more time for the submission, send an E-mail with an estimated time of submission. Best regards, Ovidiu Ivanciuc ###################################### Ovidiu Ivanciuc Sealy Center for Structural Biology, Department of Human Biological Chemistry & Genetics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0857 USA __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com