[LSG-RG] [LSG-RG} Meeting on Pharma

Thu Dec 20 16:56:04 CST 2007

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

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From: lsg-rg-bounces at ogf.org [mailto:lsg-rg-bounces at ogf.org] On Behalf
Of Abbas Farazdel
Sent: 20 December 2007 20:34
To: Angulo, David; lsg-rg at gridforum.org
Subject: Re: [LSG-RG] [LSG-RG} Meeting on Pharma

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 at us.ibm.com <mailto:farazdel at us.ibm.com>  

http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html
<http://www.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html>  

"Angulo, David" <dangulo at cti.depaul.edu> 
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12/20/2007 02:02 PM 

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[LSG-RG] [LSG-RG} Meeting on Pharma

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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