1. Digital Chemistry Ltd and Barnard Chemical Information Ltd
John Barnard
Sheffield, UK

2. Barnard Chemical Information Ltd
Formed by John Barnard in 1985
Joined by Geoff Downs in 1988, and by Tony Cook and Matthew Wright in 2002
Consultancy and contract software development
Developed software for
Structure fingerprint generation
Cluster analysis
Markush structure processing
etc.
Marketed software toolkits and command-line programs

3. Introducing Digital Chemistry Ltd
Formed September 2005 by existing BCI Directors
BCI is now a wholly-owned subsidiary
Significant expansion of staff, and move to office premises near Leeds
Aims to build new products based on BCI's science and know-how, and expansion into new informatics areas
Initial products based on web services for clustering and fingerprint generation
New products expected Q2/2006

4. Digital Chemistry Directors
Julian Hayward (Managing )
ex-Synopsys, ex-LHASA UK
John Barnard (Scientific)
ex-BCI
Tony Cook (Software Engineering)
ex-Synopsys, ex-BCI
Geoff Downs (Consultancy)
Matthew Wright (Technical)
ex-MDL, ex-IDBS, ex-BCI

5. IU Involvement Visiting Scholar, September/October 1995
School of Library and Information Science
Adjunct Professor, School of Informatics
lectures on Chemical Informatics program
BCI/Digital Chemistry software licensed at nominal fee to School of Informatics
use on student projects etc.

6. Interests and Expertise
Handling large chemical datasets
Descriptor generation
Cluster analysis
Diversity analysis
Markush representation of combinatorial libraries
Fast processing of virtual libraries without the need for structure enumeration
property calculation
library overlap identification
substructure search
etc.

7. Dr John M. Barnard Scientific Director Digital Chemistry Ltd
The Iron Shed
Harewood House Estate
Harewood
Leeds LS 17 9LF
United Kingdom