The AlgE group members Karsten Klein, Nils Kriege, and Petra Mutzel have won the Best Paper award at this year's International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2012) for their publication “Scaffold Hunter - Visual Analysis of Chemical Compound Databases”. The paper describes Scaffold Hunter, an interactive software tool for the exploration and analysis of chemical compound databases. Scaffold Hunter allows to explore the chemical space spanned by a compound database, fosters intuitive recognition of complex structural and bioactivity relationships, and helps to identify interesting compound classes with a desired bioactivity. Thus, the tool supports chemists during the complex and time-consuming drug discovery process to gain additional knowledge and to focus on regions of interest, facilitating the search for promising drug candidates.

Best Paper award für die Veröffentlichung “Scaffold Hunter - Visual Analysis of Chemical Compound Databases” von Karsten Klein, Nils Kriege und Petra Mutzel auf der diesjährigen International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP 2012). Die Veröffentlichung beschreibt Scaffold Hunter, eine Software zur visuellen Analyse von chemischen Strukturdatenbanken.