Workshop, Orléans, Sept 12th

This workshop is set up by the Chemomentum Consortium. Chemomentum is an European R&D Project.

The aim of Chemomentum is to develop a middleware that allows the integration of different software in a unique environment, and to distribute calculations on different calculation centres, all around the world, without any problem of confidentiality and security.

This tool should more particularly be very useful for the bioactivity prediction field, increasing the efficiency of the bioinformatics tools.

One of the most important domain on which Chemomentum decided to focus is the REACH initiative. That is why the consortium has decided to propose a dedicated workshop to REACH and alternative methods.

First, an overview of REACH and of the status of alternative methods for REACH will be given, focusing also on the paradox between the Cosmetic Directive and REACH.
Then, computational tools for REACH will be underlined:
- the potential applications and consequences of the use of (Q)SAR for REACH initiative;
- the ways to increase the efficiency of in silico tools;
- examples of applications of in silico tools to tackle REACH issues.