ICM Workshop September 2005

The September 2005 ICM Workshop was conducted by Prof. Ruben Abagyan (Faculty, The Scripps Research Institute) and Dr. Maxim Totrov (Principal Scientist, Molsoft) at Molsoft in La Jolla California. The workshop sold out very quickly and attracted participants from both the pharmaceutical industry as well as academic research institutes. All the participants agreed that the workshop will help them use ICM tools more effectively and successfully. Some of the comments from the participants included:

"An excellent course."
"ICM has surpassed my expectations."
"Thank you all for a great workshop."
"The course overall was excellent."

The workshop covered a wide range of topics in the field of computational drug design. Day one topics included:

• ICM - The Basics
• Sequence and Structure Analysis
• Molecular modeling

Day two focused on Cheminformatics and Docking:

• Cheminformatics
• Small molecule docking
• Protein-protein docking
• QSAR

The workshop ended with a wine and cheese reception where participants got a chance to meet and ask questions to the Molsoft Developers and Scientists. Prof. Ruben Abagyan said, "The ICM Workshop provides a great opportunity to meet, teach and answer questions from ICM users. I would like to thank all the participants for attending, and I hope this workshop will enable them to achieve great success with their future research."

The date for the next ICM Workshop will be announced shortly on our website.