Andreas ('Anoop') Bender, PhD

Lecturer at the Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, part of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cambridge. Coming to town? Just let me know and we will go for Formal Hall or a good round of punting!

We have a PhD Position in Chemogenomics available in my group. Also, we have multiple postdoc and PhD positions vacant in the Unilever Center - if you are interested don't hesitate to apply.

The Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms edited by Jean-Loup Faulon from Evry University and me was just published.

I just received the EFMC Prize for Young Medicinal Chemist in Academia which will be awarded at the XXIst International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Brussels from 5-9 September 2010.






My Chromosomes


Next talks:

XIXth LACDR School on Medicinal Chemistry
Oegstgeest, The Netherlands, 19-22 October 2010

UK QSAR Meeting Fall 2010
Cambridge, UK, 12 October 2010

FIGON Dutch Medicines Days 2010
Lunteren, The Netherlands, 4-6 October 2010

21st International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry
Brussels, Belgium, 5-9 September 2010

Second Strasbourg Summer School on Chemoinformatics
Obernai, France, 20-24 June 2010

Bio-IT World 2010
Boston/MA, 20-22 April 2010

British Toxicology Society Annual Meeting 2010
Edinburgh, 28-31 March 2010

In silico discovery of molecular probes and drug-like compounds: Success & Challenges
Ile de France, France, 23-25 March 2010

Fragment-Based Lead Design 2009
York/UK, 20-23 September 2009

DrugInfoMeet
Cochin/India, 19-21 August 2009

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
Boston/USA, 27-29 April 2009

Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa/Ethiopia, 9 January 2009

MIPTEC '08
Basel/Switzerland, 14-16 October 2008

Virtual Discovery Europe
Amsterdam/The Netherlands, 19-20 June 2008

8th International Conference on Chemical Structures
Noordwijkerhout/The Netherlands, 1-5 June 2008

Bio-IT World Conference & Expo
Boston/USA, 28-30 April 2008

6th Annual Congress: G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Drug Discovery
Berlin/Germany, 10-13 March 2008







Recent publications (More Publications)
68. A novel chemogenomics analysis of G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their ligands: a potential strategy for receptor de-orphanization
Eelke van der Horst, Julio E. Peironcely, Adriaan P. IJzerman, Margot W. Beukers, J. Robert Lane, Herman W.T. van Vlijmen, Michael T.M. Emmerich, Yasushi Okuno and Andreas Bender, BMC Bioinformatics 2010 (in press)


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67. Dynamic clustering threshold reduces conformer ensemble size while maintaining a biologically relevant ensemble
Austin B. Yongye, Andreas Bender and Karina Martinez-Mayorga. J. Comp.-Aided Drug Des. 2010 (in press)


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66. Prospective Validation of a Comprehensive In silico hERG model and its Applications to Commercial Compound and Drug Databases.
Munikumar R. Doddareddy, Elisabeth C.Klaasse, Shagufta, Adriaan P. IJzerman and Andreas Bender, ChemMedChem 2010 (5) 716 - 729.


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The supplementary material of the article, containing 2600+ hERG data points with literature sources, can now also be downloaded from this location.
65. Diversity-Oriented Synthesis.
Warren R. J. D. Galloway, Richard J. Spandl, Andreas Bender and David R. Spring, In: Chemical Genomics, Haian Fu (Ed.) 2010 (in press)


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64. Mining protein dynamics from sets of crystal structures using "consensus structures".
Gerard J.P. van Westen, Jörg K. Wegner, Andreas Bender, Adriaan P. IJzerman and Herman W.T. van Vlijmen, Protein Sci. 2010 (19) 742 - 752.


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63. Predicting the functions of proteins in Protein-Protein Interaction networks from global information.
Hossein Rahmani, Hendrik Blockeel and Andreas Bender, J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2010 (8) 82 - 97.


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62. Bayesian Methods in Virtual Screening and Chemical Biology.
Andreas Bender, In: Bayesian Methods in Virtual Screening and Chemical Biology, Jurgen Bajorath (Ed.), Meth. Mol. Biol. 2010 (in press)


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More Publications

What's up in Bangalore?

According to Maldacena, our universe may be a three-dimensional membrane living in a four-dimensional anti de Sitter space. 'This picture is looking increasingly plausible' says Prof Duff. - The Daily Telegraph, 7 August 2002
I actually like theoretical physicists, but they tend to oversimplify things.

Although antigen expressed in potato for use in humans was effective in animals, the cooking required for human consumption of the vegetable destroyed the immunogenocity of the antigen. - Drug Discovery and Development, H P Rang (ed.), 1st edition, p. 190.
Yep folks, that's science.

Too much information is no information. - unknown

Wer Sicherheit der Freiheit vorzieht ist zu Recht ein Sklave. - Aristoteles
(Those who prefer safety to freedom are slaves, and rightly so.)

Nichts ist einfach wenn man's doppelt nimmt. - My Grandmother
(Nothing to add here).

Wenn ich Du waere, waere ich lieber ich. - Unknown
(If I were you I'd rather be me.)

Der Unterschied zwischen Theorie und Praxis ist in der Theorie groesser als in der Praxis. - Unknown
(The difference between theory and practice is bigger in theory than in practice.)