InChI News

March 2, 2022: Open InChI Days 2022 - planned for April 5-6, 2022

The previously planned in person InChI Technical meeting for April is being moved to June 19-21. More information on that shortly. Open InChI Days 2022 will be held virtually on April 5-6 coverring current InChI topics. See more information HERE

trust February 12, 2022: InChI Trust Website Updated

The InChI Website has been updated and a number of new areas added:
• a Working Group page with all the projects listed; a webpage for each Working Group
• The Bibliography has been divided into 4 sections: 1: InChI overview; 2: code development; 3: drug discovery papers; 4: ML/AI or other scientific papers
• People overviews have been added: Board; InChI Team; Working Group Leaders and Members

general November 15, 2021: First Issue of InChI OUTREACH Released

InChI OUTREACH will be published on a regular basis every 2 to 3 months. We will include the latest news, topics of interest, discussions on various aspects of InChI. The first issue and a link to subscribe to future issues are available here:

trust November 10, 2021: We sadly note the passing of Igor Pletnev

Igor Pletnev was the developer and caretaker of the InChI software algorithm for 15 years, first at NIST and then at the InChI Trust. Over the years Igor made great contributions to the InChI project. His knowledge of both chemistry and computer programming made him a unique person to carry out all these tasks while interacting with chemists around the world on an almost daily basis. While there were many demands on his work efforts with the InChI algorithm, Igor always was calm and friendly to all, a true professional at all times. He will be missed and dearly remembered for all of his outstanding work by all of us at InChI Trust and the global community of InChI developers and users.

trust September 1, 2021: New Team Members Added

The InChI Trust added two new positions to help advance the extension of the InChI code as well as its awareness and use across the community.

Gerd Blanke (gerd@inchi-trust.org) is the Technical Director for the Trust. He is working closely with the working groups to help move the various activities to delivery in next versions of the code. Gerd has held senior positions in information technology and services across the research area of life science and chemical industry. His business development skills span chemical and bio informatics, databases, data analytics, business Intelligence, project management, and management. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerd-blanke-b13115).

Rudy Potenzone (rudy@inchi-trust.org) is the Director of Outreach and Marketing, including extensions to the website, a newsletter (InChI OUTREACH), and a program to reach out to potential new sponsors, developers and users. Rudy is an accomplished executive with a proven track record of developing products for life science informatics, knowledge management, workflow systems and electronic lab notebooks. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rudypoten).

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