The 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, PA from August 21 to August 25, 2016.  At this meeting, whose theme is “of the people, by the people, for the people”, Drs. Stephen Bryant and Evan Bolton will be presented the Herman Skolnik Award honoring their leadership in the PubChem project.  See here for more details about the Herman Skolnik Award.

In addition, the PubChem team and collaborators will give a total of eight oral presentations at the meeting to present recent developments and updates in PubChem.

Monday, August 22

• CINF 47: Practical issues in chemistry data sharing in PubChem
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 10:50 am – 11:00 am

• CINF 58: Chemistry data pain points: distilled, analyzed, and next steps
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1:55 pm – 4:10 pm

Tuesday, August 23

• CINF 76: Open chemical information: Where now and how?
  Room 112A/B – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 4:25 pm – 4:50 pm

Wednesday, August 24

• CINF 77: Users roundtable: Laboratory use cases for chemical safety information
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 8:30 am – 8:45 am

• CINF 80: Chemical safety and hazard information in PubChem
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 9:35 am – 10:00 am

• CINF 81: Semantic annotation of the laboratory chemical safety summary in PubChem
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 10:15 am – 10:40 am

Thursday, August 25

• CINF 93: Strategies to improve PubChem data quality and search effectiveness through data analysis
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 9:15 am – 9:40 am

• CINF 95: Hybrid search engine for chemical information in PubChem
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 10:20 am – 10:45 am

The PubChem team is also involved in organizing several symposia at this meeting, including:

• CINF: Bringing Cheminformatics into the College Chemistry Classroom (co-sponsored by CHED)
  Room 112B – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 8:15 am – 12:05 pm (Sun, Aug. 21)

• CINF: Chemistry Data for the People: From Policy to Practice (morning session) (co-sponsored by MPPG)
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 8:05 am – 12:00 pm (Mon, Aug. 22)

• CINF: Chemistry Data for the People: From Policy to Practice (afternoon session) (co-sponsored by MPPG)
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm (Mon, Aug. 22)

• CINF: Herman Skolnik Award Symposium (morning session)
  Room 112A/B – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 8:45 am – 12:00 pm (Tue, Aug. 23)

• CINF: Herman Skolnik Award Symposium (afternoon session)
  Room 112A/B – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 2:00 pm – 5:05 pm (Tue, Aug. 23)

• CINF: Using Public Information to Support a Chemical Safety Culture (co-sponsored by CHAS)
  Room 112A – Pennsylvania Convention Center, 8:25 am – 12:05 pm (Wed, Aug. 24)

Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia; Photo Credit: Beyond My Ken [ CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) ]