At the upcoming ACS National meeting this spring in Chicago is a symposia 
that may be of interest to some of the people on this list.  We are still 
accepting (until *this* coming friday 10 Nov 06 via OASYS) abstracts for 
contributed talks at:
   
http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm
PHYS division, 5th link down to "Measures of Accuracy and Reliability in 
Molecular Simulation"
If you have questions, please let me know.
\-/   Thomas E. Cheatham, III (Assistant Professor) College of Pharmacy
-/-    Departments of Med. Chem. and of Pharmaceutics and Pharm. Chem.
/-\  Adjunct Asst Prof of Bioeng.; Center for High Performance Computing
\-/   University of Utah, 30 S 2000 E, SH 201, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
-/-
/-\      tec3.utah.edu         (801) 587-9652; FAX: (801) 585-9119
\-/        BPRP295A             
http://www.chpc.utah.edu/~cheatham
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                ACS Spring 2007 National Meeting 
            Physical Chemistry Division Symposium on:
   "Measures of Accuracy and Reliability in Molecular Simulation"
     Richard A. Friesner              Thomas E. Cheatham, III
    rich.chem.columbia.edu                tec3.utah.edu
The objective of this symposium is to discuss approaches for evaluating 
the performance of molecular simulations in condensed phases.  Key 
questions to be addressed are: How do we know if our model is correct and 
robust? How do we gauge at what level the problem should be approached (in 
terms of the methodology, accuracy, reproducibility, and effective 
sampling)? Over the past decade, molecular simulations have proliferated 
exponentially and are now performed routinely for a wide range of systems, 
by many research groups, often employing software packages developed 
elsewhere. Assessing the correspondence of such simulations with each 
other, let alone experiment, is a highly nontrivial task. This 
proliferation and the inherent complexities (in terms of the different 
methods applied and implemented and also due to finite time and size 
scales accessible) has made it difficult to compare different force 
fields, different simulation methods, different types of boundary 
conditions, and the relationships of the simulation results to experiment. 
The goal of the symposium will be to benchmark progress in key areas of 
molecular simulation, including not only molecular dynamics, but methods 
and force fields, protein-ligand docking, and QM/MM calculations in both 
materials and biological systems.
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Received on Sun Nov 05 2006 - 06:07:59 PST