BAGIM:
Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modeling

Upcoming Meeting - April 26, 2012
 
Venue Harvard Faculty Club (free parking and meeting room)
Theatre Room, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-5758
 
Agenda 5:30pm-6:30pm Socializing (Cash Bar)
6:30pm-7:30pm Dinner ($30.00, or $25.00 for students and post-docs)
7:30pm-7:45pm Business meeting
7:45pm-8:30pm Presentation and Q&A (open to the public)
8:30pm-9:00pm Wrap-up and Departure
 
Notes (1) Complimentary parking will be available upon request (up to 20 spaces available)
  (2) CCG will be conducting workshops earlier during the day at the same location (09:00 AM - Structure-Based Drug Design: Ligand optimization in the pocket & 1:00 PM - Protein Modeling: Structure preparation | Loop grafting | Conformational searching). For those interested in attending, registration is open at www.chemcomp.com/workshops.htm
 
Title KNIME - Integrating Data, Tools and Science and Interfacing MOE and KNIME
 
Speakers  Bernd Wiswede, KNIME.com AG and Alain Deschenes, Chemical Computing Group
 
Abstract KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner) is a user-friendly and comprehensive open-source data integration, processing, analysis, and exploration platform. Its visual workbench combines data access, data transformation, initial investigation, powerful predictive analytics and visualization. Through its open API KNIME also acts as an integration backbone for a variety of tools. In just a few years, a number of open source (Weka, R, CDK) but also commercial integrations (such as provided by the Chemical Computing Group) have already appeared within KNIME adding a wealth of domain specific functionality. This talk will give an introduction to KNIME, showcase some of the community and commercial vendor contributions (particularly in the chem-informatics space) and outline some of the extensions available for KNIME that enable the deployment in a corporate environment.
CCG has been actively developing a MOE interface in KNIME since 2007. The current offering contains over 100 nodes supporting 18 data types covering a wide range of life science areas, such as ligand-based and structure-based modeling, cheminformatics, and QSAR. Combining MOE with KNIME brings data mining to modeler's desktop in an easy to use fashion. This talk will discuss the interface architecture, the introduction of support for the MOE/soap server, the node development kit, the breadth of currently available nodes and how they can be obtained. Sample workflows highlighting how research teams can benefit from interfacing MOE with KNIME.

Register for the meeting here