Potential topics to be explored in the seminar through guided readings include:

• Commercial vs. public data
• Batch mode data processing in biology and chemistry
• Primary HTS data: the problem of high noise factor
• Data format standardization problems in biology and chemistry
• Chemoinformatics and bioinformatics analysis tools
• Linking biological and chemical information in computational approaches to predict biological activity, ADME profiles, and adverse drug reactions (ADR)
• Energetics of binding for more accurate and sensitive chemical representation of DNA-protein interactions
• Discovery informatics platforms that facilitate archival, sharing, integration, and exploration of synthetic methods and biological activity data
• Data pipelining approaches that make it possible to apply bioinformatics and chemoinformatics data and analyses together
• Visualization of data in biology and chemistry
• Tools that combine multiple approaches and consolidate data, such as Metaphorics Cabinet and iSpecies.org