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Talks and Lectures

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Conference presentations

Noel M O'Boyle, Geoffrey Hutchison. Large-scale computational design and selection of polymers for solar cells. Smart Surfaces 2012 - Solar and BioSensor Applications, Mar 6-9 2012, Dublin, Ireland. (Oral presentation [pptx])

Noel M O'Boyle, Geoffrey Hutchison. Solving the inverse design problem for polymer solar cells. 15th Nanoscale Simulators Ireland and Irish Atomistic Simulators Meeting, Jan 12-13 2012, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. (Oral presentation - see above)

Attended 7th German Conference on Chemoinformatics, Nov 6-8, 2011, Goslar, Germany.

Noel M O'Boyle. Improving the quality of chemical databases with community-developed tools (and vice versa). 5th Meeting on US Government Chemical Databases and Open Chemistry, Aug 25-26 2011, Frederick (Maryland), US. (Oral presentation [pptx])

Noel M O'Boyle. Cinfony - Bringing cheminformatics toolkits into tune. Wellcome Trust Workshop on Molecular Informatics Open Source Software (MIOSS), May 4-6 2011, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton (outside Cambridge), UK. (Oral presentation [pptx])

Attended 13th BCA/CCG Intensive Teaching School in X-Ray Structure Analysis, Mar 26 - Apr 5 2011, Trevelyan College, Durham, UK.

Noel M O'Boyle. Protein-Ligand Docking. EMBL-EBI Hands-on training - Small Molecule Bioactivity Resources at the EBI, Feb 14-18 2011, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton (outside Cambridge), UK. (Oral presentation plus practical)

Noel M O'Boyle, et al. The Blue Obelisk community. Visions of a Semantic Molecular Future - A symposium to celebrate the career of Peter Murray-Rust, Jan 17 2011, Cambridge, UK. (Lightning talk [pptx] and poster [ppt])

Noel M O'Boyle, Casey M Campbell and Geoffrey R Hutchison. De novo design of molecular wires with optimal properties for solar energy conversion. 6th German Conference on Chemoinformatics, Nov 7-9 2010, Goslar, Germany. (Oral presentation [pptx])

Noel M O'Boyle, Tim Vandermeersch, Geoffrey R Hutchison. Confab - Systematic generation of diverse low-energy conformers. 6th German Conference on Chemoinformatics, Nov 7-9 2010, Goslar, Germany. (Poster presentation [ppt])

Noel M O'Boyle. Protein-Ligand Docking. EMBO Practical Course - Computational aspects of protein structure determination and analysis: from data to structure to function, Sept 6-10 2010, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton (outside Cambridge), UK. (Oral presentation [ppt])

Geoffrey R Hutchison, Casey M Campbell and Noel M O'Boyle. Computational Design and Selection of Optimal Organic Photovoltaics Materials: Finding Needles Through the Haystack. Gordon Research Conference on Electron Donor-Acceptor Interactions, Aug 8-13 2010, Newport (Rhode Island), US. (Poster presentation)

Noel M O'Boyle and Geoffrey R Hutchison. Cinfony - Combining disparate cheminformatics resources into a single toolkit. 239th ACS National Meeting, March 21-25 2010, San Francisco, US. (Oral presentation)

Geoffrey R Hutchison and Noel M O'Boyle. Organic electronic materials by design: Finding a needle through the haystack. 239th ACS National Meeting, March 21-25 2010, San Francisco, US. (Oral presentation)

Noel M O'Boyle. Protein-Ligand Docking. EMBL-EBI Hands-on training - Small Molecule Bioactivity Resources at the EBI, Jan 25-29 2010, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton (outside Cambridge), UK. (Oral presentation plus practical)

Noel M O'Boyle, John Liebeschuetz, Jason Cole. Why multiple scoring functions can improve docking performance - Testing hypotheses for rescoring success. Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design, July 19-24 2009, Tilton (New Hampshire), US. (5 min talk [ppt] and poster presentation [ppt])

Noel M O'Boyle, Suzanne C. Brewerton, Robin Taylor. Digging deep for GOLD - How buriedness may be used to discriminate between actives and inactives in docking. 8th International Conference on Chemical Structures, June 1-5 2008, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. (Poster presentation [PDF])

Noel M O'Boyle, Jason Cole, John Liebeschuetz, Robin Taylor. Improving enrichment rates - A practical solution to an impractical problem. 235th ACS National Meeting, April 6-10 2008, New Orleans, US. (Oral presentation [ppt])

Noel M O'Boyle. Making the most of a QM calculation. ChemToolsMeet - CCP1 meeting on Molecular Modelling: Tools, GUIs and Visualisation, March 11-13 2008, Runcorn (near Daresbury), UK. (Oral presentation)

Noel M O'Boyle, Gemma L Holliday, Daniel E Almonacid, John BO Mitchell. Using reaction meachanism to measure enzyme similarity. 234th ACS National Meeting, August 19-23 2007, Boston, US. (Oral presentation)

Attended CSA Trust & Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society 4th Joint Sheffield Conference on Chemoinformatics, June 18-20 2007, Sheffield, UK.

Noel M O'Boyle, Adam Tenderholt, Mehdi Bounouar. cclib - Parsers and algorithms for computational chemists. Complife '06 - The 2nd International Symposium on Computational Life Science, Sept 27-29 2006, Cambridge, UK. (Oral presentation [PDF] and poster [PDF])

Noel M O'Boyle, Gemma L Holliday, Daniel E Almonacid, Peter Murray-Rust, John BO Mitchell, Janet M Thornton. Classification of Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms. 231st ACS National Meeting, March 26-30 2006, Atlanta, US. (Poster presentation [PDF])

Noel M O'Boyle, Gemma L Holliday, Gail J Bartlett, Daniel E Almonacid, Peter Murray-Rust, John BO Mitchell, Janet M Thornton. MACiE - A database for classification of enzyme reaction mechanisms. MGMS International Meeting: Biomolecular simulations - from prediction to practice, Sept 11-14 2005, Dublin, Ireland. (Poster presentation [PDF])

Noel M O'Boyle. Python for Chemistry in 21 Minutes. Seminar, Sept 2005, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, University of Cambridge, UK. (Oral presentation [PDF])

Noel M O'Boyle, Johannes G Vos. Density functional theory investigation of ruthenium polypyridyl complexes incorporating 1,2,4-triazole. ESPA2004 - Electronic Structure: Principles and Applications, Sept 15-17 2004, Valladolid, Spain. (Poster presentation [ppt])

Noel M O'Boyle, Johannes G Vos. Density functional theory calculations on Ruthenium polypyridyl complexes incorporating 1,2,4-triazole. 15th ISPPCC - International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds, July 4-9 2004, Hong Kong. (Poster presentation [ppt])

Noel M O'Boyle, Johannes G Vos. Application of Density Functional Theory to Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. SUSANA project (EU Training and Mobility Network): Scientific Mid-Term Meeting, June 2004, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. (Oral presentation [ppt])

Attended DFT2003 - 10th International Conference on the Applications of Density Functional Theory in Chemistry and Physics, Sept 7-12 2003, Brussels, Belgium.

Noel M O'Boyle, Wesley R Browne, Steve Welter, Ron TF Jukes, Luisa De Cola, Colin G Coates, John J McGarvey, Johannes G Vos. Towards Practical Molecular Devices: the Incorporation of a Solid Substrate as an Active Component in Molecular Assemblies. HRMSC & European Photochemistry Association Summer School - New Perspectives in Photochemistry, June 28-July 2, 2003, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. (Poster presentation (see below) plus 3-slide intro)

Noel M O'Boyle, Johannes G Vos. Towards Practical Molecular Devices. Seminar, early 2003 (estimated), Dublin City University, Ireland. (Oral presentation [ppt])

Noel M O'Boyle, Wesley R Browne, Steve Welter, Ron TF Jukes, Luisa De Cola, Colin G Coates, John J McGarvey, Johannes G Vos. Towards Practical Molecular Devices: the Incorporation of a Solid Substrate as an Active Component in Molecular Assemblies. COST D19 International Workshop on Nanochemistry, Sept 26-28 2002, Vienna, Austria. (Poster presentation [ppt])


Lectures

Lecture Course on Computational Chemistry and Cheminformatics

April 2010: A 6-hour lecture course for postgraduate students at University College Cork covering computational chemistry calculations, cheminformatics, computational drug design and internet technologies in chemistry.

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