Course coordinator — Dr. Igor V. Tetko, Group leader, Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen.
Language of the course — English.
The course will introduce the chemoinformatics and will highlights requirements to this discipline in the light of new EU legislation concerning the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals (REACH). It will start with a basic description of the chemoinfomatics and its role in drug discovery and environmental protection. An overview of modern challenges in the field, unsolved and actively addressed problems will be discussed. Several examples of practical application of chemoinformatics in drug discovery and environment will be given by the leading scientists from EU and the Ukraine. The course will be completed by practical training to the web-based tools to develop quantitative structure-activity(property) relationship (QSAR/QSPR) models.
Other course tutors:
Prof. Willie Peijnenburg, The Netherlands, RIVM, coordinator of CADASTER project (to be confirmed).
Prof. Victor Kuzmin, vice director of A.V.Bogatsky Physico-Chemical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Dr. Vasyl Kovalishyn, senior scientist, Institute of Bioorganic & Petrochemistry, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Mr. Iurii Sushko and Mr. Sergii Novotarskyi, Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen.
Supported with Germany-Ukraine bilateral grant UKR 008/006, FP7 project CADASTER