Chemoinformatics: Basic Concepts and Methods

About Johann GasteigerThomas Engel

Johann Gasteiger obtained his academic degrees at the University of Munich. He was a Postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Andrew Streitwieser Jr. at University of California Berkeley USA. He completed his habilitation Technical University of Munich followed by a professorship. Since 1994 he has been a professor at the University of ErlangenNurnberg where he is the cofounder of ComputerChemieCentrum. He has received numerous awards and is a member of several societies and editorial boards. Thomas Engel received his academic degrees at the University of Wurzburg. He has specialized during the last ten years in the field of scientific computing especially in chemoinformatics and bioinformatics. He has worked in the research group of Johann Gasteiger at the University of ErlangenNurnberg and the CCG software company. Since 2001 he is lecturer at various universities promoting and establishing courses in scientific computing. Currently Thomas Engel is coordinator at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the LudwigMaximiliansUniversitat in Munich Germany. He is also a member of the ChemistryInformationComputer section (CIC) of the GDCh and the Molecular Graphics and Modeling Society (German section).