I'll
be devils advocate - for a change!!! ;o)
What
is this group attempting to achieve? Is it to explore software per se used in
the life sciences or is it to work within OGF to help improve the standards and
best practice in building Grids for the life sciences? These need not be
orthogonal but I am not sure how presentations by commercial software providers
will help the OGF work as a whole. I could be wrong of course - they may be all
be implementing standards/technologies which have a direct bearing on the Grid
and OGF activities. Being my usual cynical self, I am not sure that this is the
case though.
I note
that there are many venues for commercial software providers to present their
wares.
I
guess these comments could be applied to many/all research groups at
OGF.
Thoughts?
Rich
I suggest the presentation topic to
be "Pharmaceutical R&D" instead of "Pharmacology" so that we would have a
bigger umbrella to cover areas of interest. In particular, I suggest "In-silico
Pharmaceutical R&D" (e.g., in-silico clinical development with simulated
patients) which is of considerable interest to pharma companies for pre-clinical
development and even patient care situations.
Some of the Independent Software Vendor companies in this
area are Gene Network Sciences, Immunetrics, Entelos, GenStruct, Optimata,
Genomatica, and Pharsight. In fact we can have people from these companies or
the customers of these companies present at the workshop. What do you
think?
Best Regards,
Dr. Abbas Farazdel
Blue Gene
Solutions Executive – Petascale Computing
IBM Systems & Technology Group
Tel: +1 603 707 6377
Mobile: +1 603 707 6377
Fax: +1 845 491 3569
Email: farazdel@us.ibm.com
http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html
"Angulo, David"
<dangulo@cti.depaul.edu>
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Dear all:
This is an e-mail message regarding the Life Science
Grid Research Group (LSG-RG) in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), formerly the Global
Grid Forum (GGF).
I sent out last month asking for input regarding a
proposed meeting regarding proteomics for the next OGF meeting in Boston in
February. The leadership of OGF would like to make a workshop for Pharma,
and they have asked us to participate with them in this effort.
Thus, I
would like to extend a call for presentations in Pharmacology. We would
like to specifically look for presentations relating to those areas in
Pharmacology that involve intensive computational power, extensive
communications, or massive amounts of data, but all will be considered. I
would like the membership of this e-mail list to help us in the solicitation of
speakers, and would like to solicit your input into what topics and/or speakers
we should pursue.
Here are some suggested speakers
* Piotr Sliz,
PhD, Bioinformatics Specialist II, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
* Steve
Litster, Novartis Institutes of BioMedical Research
* Timothy Wagner,
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
* Jeffrey Mathers, Pharmaceutical Research &
Development
* Sanjoy Ray, Merck
* Peter S. Shenkin, Schrodinger
*
WISDOM, Vincent Breton CNRS
* Bridge, Martin Hofmann fron SCAI
Fraunhofer
* Share, Tony Solomonides from Univ West England
* Ian Penny of
Pfizer
I'm looking forward to input from all. Please post
notices by 12/26/07
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Angulo
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