Dana Vanderwall, Associate Director of Cheminformatics at Bristol-Myers Squibb, presented for my last Chemical Information Retrieval class on December 2, 2010.

The first part covered "Cheminformatics & The evolving relationship between data in the public domain & pharma" and included a general discussion of modern drug discovery and the details of a malaria dataset recently released from the pharmaceutical industry to the public.

The second part described a project based on "Molecular Clinical Safety Intelligence", where tracking side effects from approved drugs can help in the design of new drugs.

It was a very nice way to close out the course, showing very practical applications of the concepts we covered over the term. The recording is available below.