BCA Spring Meeting 2003 University of York Tuesday 15 March to Thursday 17 April 2003

The conference is opened with the plenary session and there are four speakers covering aspects of "High Throughput, Databases and Data Mining".

Crystallography has moved a long way from its early days of lengthy structure solutions and database searching with books, etc. Now all crystallographic activities benefit from rapid computer searching and fast data collection and this has lead to quite different ways of working and of course the automation of the growth and selection of crystals. Rapid data collection methods eventually create vast databases of structures that can benefit drug design, for example, by rapid search for structural analogues. The databases and extracting the right data (data mining) has now become a very important topic. The identification of structural phases by X-ray diffraction has long been an important tool and building quality databases is an essential part. This session will cover aspects of rapid data collection and handling large quantities of data, the use of databases and the use of new synchrotron diffraction methods capable of simultaneously monitoring multiple grains within a single bulk sample as a function of time, temperature and 3 dimensional space.

Detailed Programme

11:00 Welcome address by the President: Chris Gilmore

11:02 Henning Poulson (Risoe) - 3DXRD: Grain Maps, Grain Dynamics and Grain Refinement

11:45 (Short Break)

11:47 Mike Hursthouse (Southampton) - High Throughput Chemical Crystallography: Meeting and Greeting the Combichem Challenge

12:30 (Lunch Break)

13:30 John Faber (ICDD) - ICDD's New PDF-4 Databases: Search Indexes, Full Pattern Analyses, and Data Mining

14:14 (Short Break)

14:16 Christian Cambillua (CNRS Marseille) Structural Genomics in a Medium Sized Laboratory