UK-QSAR Autumn 2022 Meeting
The UKQSAR Autumn 2022 Meeting, held on November 8 at the Francis Crick Institute in London and organized by MSD and Cresset, featured a poster titled "Adventures in AI" by Dotmatics and included a keynote presentation by Dan Ormsby, Director of Science & Technology at Dotmatics, who discussed his extensive experience in computational chemistry and contributions to AI-driven chemistry analysis tools within the Dotmatics software suite.
The Autumn UKQSAR & Cheminformatics Society Meeting took place at the Francis Crick Institute, London, on Tuesday 8th November 2022.
Dotmatics presented a poster titled "Adventures in AI".
The meeting was organised and hosted jointly by MSD and Cresset, and was free to attend. Registration closed on Friday 28th October.
Featured Speakers
Dan Ormsby
Dan Ormsby, Ph.D., is the Director of Science & Technology at Dotmatics. He collaborates with client informatics and IT departments to maximize the value of research data generated by chemistry and biology teams, assisting in deployments of the Dotmatics software suite and integrations with third-party systems. His customer-facing consulting role involves extensive travel and collaboration with globally diverse teams. Dan has contributed to many parts of the Dotmatics software, originally implementing chemistry analysis techniques in Vortex, including super-structure searching, matched-pair analysis, chemical property calculation, and clustering. With over 25 years of experience in computational chemistry for drug discovery and materials chemistry projects at Dotmatics, BIOVIA, GSK, BP, and Imperial College London, Dan holds a PhD, MSc, and BSc in Chemistry from the University of Leeds. He is the primary author of several scientific algorithms in the Dotmatics platform, including the latest Chemistry AI technology available in Vortex.
Event Details
- Date: November 8, 2022
- Time: 9am BST
- Location: Francis Crick Institute, London
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