Gerard JP van Westen

Her: Name your favorite literary vampire. Me: The one from Sesame Street. Her: He doesn't count. Me: | can assure you that he does.

@ionica (en de discussie op https://www.toughpigs.com/i-can-assure-you-that-he-does/ is ook goed!)

New @chemrxiv.bsky.social preprint!

RoboChem-Flex is a powerful, low-cost (<5k EUR), modular self-driving lab for chemical synthesis

We showcase 6 studies (photochemistry, biocatalysis, cross coupling, ee ...), all optimized with different configurations & ML

🔗 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Mike Lynch Award 2025: Val Gillet In recognition of her pioneering research in chemical structure analysis, visionary educational leadership, and enduring dedication to advancing scientific collaboration, Professor Val Gillet has been awarded the 2025 Mike Lynch Award by the Trustees of the CSA Trust. The Trustees are proud to honor Professor Gillet for her outstanding and innovative contributions to the field of Chemoinformatics. Her influential body of work – widely cited and highly regarded – has shaped the Chemoinformatics landscape and driven progress in pharmaceutical research and development. In parallel with her research achievements, Professor Gillet has played a central role in building and refining the Chemoinformatics educational program at the University of Sheffield. Under her supervision, the program has earned international recognition as a hub of excellence for research and training. She is also co-author of a foundational textbook that remains a key reference in the field. Beyond her academic accomplishments, Professor Gillet has been instrumental in fostering collaboration and visibility within Chemoinformatics. Her longstanding support of the Cheminformatics Conference in Sheffield and the International Conference on Chemical Structures in Noordwijkerhout has helped elevate them to the field’s most prominent international gatherings. Val Gillet is a Professor of Chemoinformatics at the University of Sheffield, where she leads the Chemoinformatics Research Group within School of Information, Journalism and Communication. https://www.linkedin.com/in/val-gillet-15a60429/ https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ijc/people/val-gillet The CSA Trust is an internationally recognized, registered charity that promotes education, research, and development in fields related to chemical structures and cheminformatics. ### Share this: * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Like Loading... ### _Related_

we are very happy to relay that the CSA Trust has decided to award the Mike Lynch award to Prof. Val Gillet who will be giving a keynote lecture at our #ICCS2025 opening session https://csa-trust.org/2025/05/23/mike-lynch-award-2025-val-gillet/

Photo of Gerard van Westen on stage and the "Save the Date!" slide announcing ICCS 2028, from June 11th to June 15th and the hashtag for that meeting: #ICCS2028

the next International Conference on Chemical Structures, edition 14, will be held in the week of June 11-15 2028!

#ICCS2025 #ICCS2028

Ik volg dit niet helemaal, de genoemde stemming is 29 jaar geleden en het gedeelde NRC artikel is bijna 8 jaar oud. Heeft Rutte hier recent iets over gezegd dat je dit nu opbrengt?

Come and join us for an other exciting @led3hub.bsky.social Lecture by @jpoverington.bsky.social on March 27th.

True, but my reasoning was usage of an open system (owncloud) that allows also web based editing based on an open protocol (webdav).

And indeed, not having the AI system is great. Note that there is an extensive collection of plugins and added functionality.

Looking forward to these talks!

Bedrijven in de duurzame energiesector willen uitzondering stikstofregels Het kabinet zou bij de bouw van duurzame energieprojecten een uitzondering moeten maken op de stikstofregels, vinden betrokken bedrijven.

#NietDeSpeld… toch @speld.nl ?

“Bedrijven in de duurzame energiesector willen uitzondering stikstofregels”

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Go for it! Changed to obsidian connected to a webdav host 2 years ago. No regrets, cross platform and offline access.

The latest from CDD Leiden!

Towards assay-aware bioactivity model(er)s: getting a grip on biological context

We show how including assay descriptors in PCM models improves performance.

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

It is time…

We are very happy to inform you all that we received > 160 abstracts for the upcoming ICCS! From the submissions the program committee and the scientific advisory board will select around 30 papers for the plenary sessions. All submissions that cannot be included in the plenary sessions will be […]

The ICCS has currently close to 100 submitted abstracts and already over a 100 registrations. There is 1 day left to submit an abstract after which the SAB will review them for an exciting program. #ICCS2025

See you there? iccs-nl.org

Congratulations!

Angstcultuur aan de academie is onacceptabel Protest hoort bij het Praesidium Libertatis. Maar als Joodse studenten niet meer naar college durven, botst dat met alle academische idealen en vrijheden, betoogt Sense Jan van der Molen.

Goed stuk geschreven door collega Sense Jan vd Molen.

www.mareonline.nl/opinie/angst...

NIH peer review percentile scores are poorly predictive of grant productivity.
"...observations suggest that despite the ability of reviewers to discriminate between strong grant applications and the remainder, they have limited ability to predict future productivity..."
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The ICCS website is updated with the preliminary program. Have a look!

Registration (via conftool) is also opened. Remember the abstract deadline is Feb 28th ..!

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We're starting to have a conference! Very much looking forward to this event...

CC: @led3hub.bsky.social

Now viewing the talk of Kelly Chibale part of the #LED3LUCID symposium in honor of the @unileiden.bsky.social 450 year dies natalis.

Insightful talk by Miquel Duran-Frigola at the #LED3LUCID Symposium. He talked about making powerful computational tools available to researchers in the Global South through the Ersilia Open Source Initiative. (1/3)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations!

How do the structure and the dynamics of proteins dictate their molecular function?

In her @led3hub.bsky.social Keynote Lecture at the #LED3LUCID Symposium, Paola Picotti gave insights into her group's amazing research in this field. Great insights into the use of LiP-MS-based proteomics. (1/6)

How can we efficiently explore the vast chemical space for drug discovery?

In his talk at the #LED3LUCID Symposium, @gjpvwesten.bsky.social of the @led3hub.bsky.social talked about how his group uses the power of AI to contribute to the solution of this challenge. (1/4)

Papyrus: a large-scale curated dataset aimed at bioactivity predictions - Journal of Cheminformatics With the ongoing rapid growth of publicly available ligand–protein bioactivity data, there is a trove of valuable data that can be used to train a plethora of machine-learning algorithms. However, not...

Thanks Stephan, was a pleasure..! Can I also add our open dataset Papyrus?
jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Apologies for the delay! Yes this is possible, though we do not have a lot of places for that given out agreement with the hotel. Feel free to go to www.conftool.net/iccs2025/

Universiteit wil vaste tarieven voor beurs- en buitenpromovendi Het college van bestuur wil dat beurs- en buitenpromovendi een vast bedrag gaan betalen. Ook worden PhD’s die te weinig geld meebrengen geweerd. ‘Wordt dit gebruikt om de gehate bezuinigingen op te va...

Dit is toch de kip met de gouden eieren slachten? Deze promovendi vormen bij mijn weten geen netto kosten post maar een baten post over de hele looptijd…

www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/uni-w...

🤣 the OS update is actually much faster...! 🤣

It's not an OS, it's a software suite.. OMFG..

Can someone tell me why I can only update @microsoft.com office software on my mac if I allow autoupdate to launch at startup? why not enabling is called a problem? why I can only get rid of this prompt by killing autoupdate in system monitor?

Very bad behavior but typical ...