2021 Activities

ACS National Meeting 15 April 

• Jinbo Lee presented "Monomer.org - A Scientific Community Platform for Sharing HELM Monomer Libraries and Translating HELM Macromolecules"

2020 Activities

Pistoia Alliance Virtual Conference 23^rd October 2020

• Tianhong Zhang presented “What’s the structure of that biomolecule?”

2019 Activities

KNIME blog 9th September 2019

• Ken Longo wrote a blog "Accessing the HELM monomer library with KNIME"

Pistoia Alliance European conference 13 March 2019

• Bernhard Schirm presented "HELM in Action: Complex oligonucleotides"

2018 Activities

ACS National Meeting 19 August Boston

• Sergio Rotstein presented "HELM: Continuing to set the standard for biomolecular representation "

• Yohann Potier presented "Registering chemically modified oligonucleotides: Implementations and challenges "
• Markus Weisser presented "Similarity analysis of oligonucleotides based on HELM notation"
• Jeff Milton presented "monomer.org: The global hub for (bio) polymer informatics. "
• Noel O'Boyle presented "Building a bridge between human-readable and machine-readable representations of biopolymers."

Pistoia Alliance European Meeting 14 March London

• • HELM poster and a short presentation from Sergio Rotstein.

2017 Activities

ACS 20-22nd August Washington DC

• Matthias Nolte presented "HELM: An open standard for biomolecule structure representation and exchange"
• Perkin Elmer announced their adoption of HELM in ChemDraw. 

RSC CICAG Liverpool 22nd June 2017

• • Claire Bellamy presented "HELM Setting the standard for biomolecular exchange"

HELM Software for Biopolymers, Jeff Milton et al, Journal of Chemical Information and Modelling, 2017. 57(6), 123-1239

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jcim.6b00442

ACS San Francisco 2nd-6th April 2017

• • Jeff Milton presented " HELM: A line notation and software infrastructure for managing biopolymers"

InChI Meeting at the EMBL-EBI  20-21st March 2017

• Claire Bellamy presented "Why large molecule standards are important to pharma" in the main session.
• Markus Weisser presented "Representation of ambiguous biomolecules using the Enhanced Standard HELM 2.0" in the large molecules group.
  

Press release 18th January 2017

• • HELM web-editor version 1 release announcement

2016 Activities

 BioIT World 5^th April 2016:

• • Sergio Rotstein presented “Registration and Beyond” in work stream 4: Data Management for Biologics.
  • Markus Weisser presented "Embracing Ambiguity" as the selected poster presentation in the ‘Data and storage management solutions’ track.
  • Markus Weisser presented the poster “Embracing Ambiguity”

 11th Laboratory Informatics Summit Philadelphia 25-27^th January

• • Leah O’Brien and Sergio Rostein led the panel discussion entitled "Exploring Pre-Competitive Opportunities in Laboratory Informatics Settings” and mentioned HELM.

2015 Activities

13th Annual Pharmaceutical IT Congress, 23–24^th September 2015

• • Sergio Rotstein gave a talk entitled: “Pistoia Alliance HELM Project: Setting the Standard for Biomolecular Data Exchange”

250th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, 16-20^th August 2015

• • Tianhong Zhang gave a talk entitled: “HELM an Open Standard for Complex Polymeric Structures”
  • Carmen Nitsche spoke in the CINF Division Symposium on “Data sharing in life sciences R&D” which mentioned HELM briefly.

PEGS Biophysical Analysis Conference, 6^th May 2015

• • Sergio Rotstein spoke on “Pistoia Alliance HELM Project: Setting the Standard for Biomolecular Data Exchange” in Stream 5b: Biophysical Analysis of Biotherapeutics

BioIT World 5^th April 2015:

• • Sergio presented “Pistoia Alliance HELM Project: An Open Standard for the Representation of Complex Biomolecules"

SLAS Webinar, 31^st March 2015

• • Tianhong Zhang gave a talk entitled: “HELM: Setting the Standard for Biomolecular Data Exchange”

Molecular Medicine Tri-con February 2015

• • Sergio Rotstein spoke on “Pistoia Alliance HELM Project: An Open Standard for the Representation of Complex Biomolecules”

2014 Activities

IUPAC Bio-InChi kick off meeting 27^th-28^th October 2014

• • Sergio gave an overview of HELM alongside talks from others on large molecule representations.

EBI Industry forum September 23rd-24^th 2014

• • Sergio Rotstein presented “HELM”
  • Stefan Klostermann presented “ADCs”
  • Anna Gaulton presented “Biotherapeutics in ChEMBL and the implementation of HELM”

University of Cambridge 22^nd September 2014

• • A HELM multipart seminar was given by Sergio Rotstein, Andrea Chlebikova and Stefan Klostermann

HELM Showcase Webinar Wednesday 9^th July 2014

• • Contained presentations by: quattro research, Biovia, Next Move, Roche, ChemAxon

Press release 1st July 2014

• • Exchangeable HELM Announcement
    

BioIT World 30^th April 2014

• • Stefan Klostermann presented: “Extending HELM to antibody space to register complex biologics"
  • Sergio Rotstein spoke on "Pistoia Alliance HELM Project: An Open Standard for the Representation of Complex Biomolecules"
  • The project held a reception which included short overview of HELM and single slide updates from: ChemAxon, EBI, Accelrys, BMS, Roche

Press release 4th February 2014

• • ChEMBL HELM Collaboration Announcement
    

SLAS meeting 11^th January 2014

• • Roland Knispel presented "HELM: an open standard for representing large molecules"

2013 Activities

ICIC 14^th October 2013

• Alex Drijver presented: “Pistoia Alliance and HELM: An open information standard for the molecular representation of biologics”

Press release 18th June 2013

• • HELM Release Announcement

London Lunch and Learn 30^th May 2013

• • Sergio Rostein presented: “What About the Big Guys? The emerging HELM standard for macromolecular representation and the Pistoia Alliance"