[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 235 (Thursday, December 8, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 73018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-23792]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


National Library of Medicine; Notice of Meeting

    Notice is hereby given of the first meeting of the Working Group on 
Chemical Information Resource Coordination under the National Library 
of Medicine's (NLM) Board of Scientific Counselors, National Center for 
Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
    The meeting will be open to the public, with attendance limited to 
space available. Individuals who plan to attend and need special 
assistance, such as sign language interpretation or other reasonable 
accommodations, should notify the Contact Person listed below in 
advance of the meeting.
    The mission of the Working Group on Chemical Information Resource 
Coordination is to advise the Board of Scientific Counselors, NCBI, on 
interactions with private sector information providers in the 
development of the PubChem database. PubChem is a publicly available 
database that includes information about the biological activities of 
chemical compounds, and is designed to facilitate more integrated 
access to these information resources for biomedical researchers. The 
working group will: (1) Establish a process for retrospective 
evaluation of the biomedical relevance of compounds entered into 
PubChem, (2) Ensure the provenance of the data (i.e., whether private 
data are being improperly deposited into PubChem), (3) Ensuring the 
high quality of data in PubChem, (4) Monitoring the effect of PubChem 
on scientific progress, (5) Improving/integrating interactions with 
commercial information providers, and (6) Avoiding unnecessary 
duplication with commercial information providers. This working group 
supports part of the National Institutes of Health's Roadmap, called 
the Molecular Libraries Initiative.

    Name of Committee: Working Group on Chemical Information 
Resource Coordination.
    Date: December 19, 2005.
    Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    Agenda: Discussion on the NLM/NCBI PubChem Database.
    Place: National Library of Medicine, Building 38, Board Room, 
2nd Floor, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894.
    Contact Person: David J. Lipman, MD, Director, National Center 
for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, 
Building 38A, Room 8N803, Bethesda, MD 20894, 301-496-2475.
    Any interested person may file written comments with the 
committee by forwarding the statement to the Contact Person listed 
on this notice. The comment should include the name, address, 
telephone number and, when applicable, the business or professional 
affiliation of the interested person.

    Dated: November 29, 2005.
Nancy Middendorf,
Acting Director, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy.
[FR Doc. 05-23792 Filed 12-7-05; 8:45 am]
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