Education
From Chemical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory
For classes offered and a general overview, see http://www.chembiogrid.org/education/index.html.
Major Educational Activities Undertaken During the Period of the NIH Grant
- Admitted and began training 4 PhD students on the cheminformatics track of the PhD in Informatics program; also 5 MS students
- Developed two new cheminformatics graduate seminars:
- 96 students have taken at least one cheminformatics course at IU or IUPUI since August 2005
- 29 students (30 percent) accessed the courses through distance education, including 20 students enrolled as DE students from pharmaceutical companies and elsewhere and 9 students currently taking the introductory graduate cheminformatics course at the University of Michigan
- Developed a Graduate Certificate in Chemical Informatics program, entirely available by distance education
- Created a comprehensive guide to cheminformatics resources on the Web (covering everything from academic programs worldwide to cheminformatics companies, databases, professional societies, publications, standards, and much more)
- Developed a Wiki version of the course Chemical Information Sources, designed to acquaint chemists, biologists, and others with the essential databases and reference materials in chemistry
- Continued to maintain the web guide CHEMINFO, which has recently been selected for inclusion as an Encyclopaedia Britannica Internet Guide and was selected for indexing in the ISI Web of Knowledge “Current Web Contents”
- Co-instructor for the Workshop on Cheminformatics at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, July 30, 2006 (Gary Wiggins: 10 faculty participants)
- Created a Distributed Drug Discovery database for the IUPUI Organic Chemistry Laboratory class that has been used by over 50 students this year
- Web services tutorial (Rajarshi Guha at the IU-MACE-Lilly meeting, August 15, 2006)
Initiated educational discussions/collaborations with the following:
- Consultants to Mesa Analytics SBIR II project to create a Cheminformatics Virtual Classroom (David Wild, Gary Wiggins, Marty Siegel)
- Tudor Oprea’s program at the University of New Mexico (David Wild)
- Peter Willet’s/Val Gillet’s program at the University of Sheffield (David Wild and Gary Wiggins)
- Patrick J. O’Malley’s program at the University of Manchester (Gary Wiggins)
- William Scott, IUPUI Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology faculty member (David Wild, Kelsey Forsythe, Malika Mahoui)
