Enter the StarDrop application
note competition to be in with a chance
Optibrium, developer of
software solutions for drug discovery, today announces the launch of its
application note competition offering StarDrop users the opportunity to win a
trip to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring National Meeting &
Exposition 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. For a chance to win, StarDrop users
who use the software in their drug discovery projects are invited to submit an
application note demonstrating their innovative use of StarDrop. Optibrium is
also providing temporary one-month licences during the competition period to
enable those not currently using StarDrop to enter the competition alongside
current users.
StarDrop helps to guide decisions on the selection and design of compounds
in drug discovery, dramatically reducing the time taken to find effective leads
and then transform them into candidate drugs with a high probability of success
downstream. StarDrop targets chemistries with a good balance of properties
using a unique multi-parameter optimisation approach, chemical space
visualisation and intuitive data analysis. Furthermore, StarDrop's interactive
designer with Glowing Molecule
TM visualisation guides the exploration of
compound design strategies with instant feedback on the impact of changes on a
compound's predicted properties. These core features can be extended with
plug-in modules to predict key ADME properties and P450 metabolism, build and
validate robust QSAR models of in-house compounds and data, and automatically
generate new, relevant compound ideas. The new FieldAlign module, recently
introduced in StarDrop 5.2, adds a powerful 3D view of compound interactions
that will complement StarDrop's existing 2D QSAR models. As StarDrop is used
throughout the drug discovery process, the competition will attract entries
across a number of different applications.
Users can enter the competition by submitting application notes which will
then be passed to a panel of experts for judging. Compound structures and data
used in the note may be anonymised or omitted for confidentiality. The material
judged to demonstrate the most innovative use of StarDrop will gain the author
an expenses paid trip to ACS Spring 2013. Full competition guidelines and terms
and conditions are available online at
http://www.optibrium.com/news/competition.php.
Entries to the competition must be received by 31
st October 2012.
The ACS National Meeting & Exposition offers attendees the opportunity
to deepen their understanding of chemistry and its role in global health,
economy and safety, in addition to providing the opportunity to exchange ideas
with some of the leading experts in the industry. Each meeting includes over
7,000 presentations highlighting innovative techniques and technological
advances whilst the expositions provide attendees with a platform to witness
new technologies in use. The competition will allow one innovative StarDrop
user to benefit from all the events that the ACS Spring Meeting 2013 promises.
Optibrium will keep its twitter followers
abreast of the launch and progress of the competition throughout its duration,
so make sure to keep an eye on Optibrium's Twitter page at
https://twitter.com/#!/Optibrium
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