Leuven, Begijnhof, 22-23.10.2002
Held in conjunction with BNAIC 2002

Workshop Overview

Genomics, proteomics, combinatorial chemistry and high throughput screening have provided a tremendous increase in the amount of data available for use in target and drug discovery. The pharmaceutical research community has not yet been able to translate these data into direct systematic optimization of the discovery process, as the gap between computer scientists and life scientists remains important.

Knowledge Discovery meets Drug Discovery aims:

• to inform the Knowledge Discovery community of the specific problems faced while exploring Drug Discovery data,
• to identify and anticipate new emerging technologies and trends in Knowledge Discovery and to make those available to the drug discovery scientists.

Knowledge Discovery meets Drug Discovery, for the first time, will bring together both the Drug Discovery community (bio- and chemo-informaticians, as well as in-silico drug discovery scientists) and the Knowledge Discovery community in a program that will stimulate open interaction.

Agenda

The bioinformatics workshop will be proceeded by:

Important dates

BNAIC ( 14th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence ) :Oct 22-23, 2002
Pre conference tutorial on Knowledge Discovery : Oct 22, 2002
Congress Knowledge Discovery meets Drug Discovery : Oct 23, 2002

Organization

BNVKI (Benelux Society for AI)
KDNet (Knowledge Discovery Net Europe)
PharmaDM (Provider of Drug Discovery Analysis Solutions)

Scientific Committee :

Peter Van der Spek (Head of Bio-informatics J&J Pharma Europe)
Abdel Laoui (Head of Chemo-informatics Aventis US)
Ross King (Head of computational lab University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Yves Moreau (Associate Professor ESAT, University of Leuven)

Organizing committee:

Michael May (KDNet, Germany)
Codrina Lauth (KDNet, Germany)
Hendrik Blockeel (KUL/BNVKI, Belgium)
Els Vanheusden (PharmaDM, Belgium)
Griet De Laet (PharmaDM, Belgium)

Registration

Workshop location: Leuven , Belgium, Begijnhof, Huis van Chičvres

The Begijnhof Congreshotel a peaceful oasis of green, is situated near the Grand Beguinage(13th century) and within walking distance of the historic centre of Leuven.
The hotel is easy to reach from the motorway E40 and E314(A2), the national airport is only 15 minutes away.

Subscription

Subscription fee cover access to all sessions, conference materials, lunch buffet and coffee breaks Prices cover only real costs. This workshop is not a commercial event. This event is sponsored by the European Commissian (through KDNet) and by PharmaDM.

	Main conference: "Knowledge Discovery meets Drug Discovery" 23.10.2002	Pre conference tutorial : "ABC of Artificial intelligence" 22.10.2002
industry	300,-	100,-
industry KDNet member	250,-	100,-
academia	180,- (BNAIC registered and acad. KDNet members: 150,-)	50,- (also for BNAIC registered and acad. KDNet members)

All prices are in EURO.

For academia KDNet members and those who have also registered to BNAIC 2002 the discount price for the main conference KDmDD 2002 will be 150,-EURO.

 

Lodging options

Begijnhof Congres Hotel (near the Faculty Club)

Hotel Binnenhof (in the city centre)

AC Hotel Leuven (near the highway E40)