Overall winner, addressing challenge 2

3D-QSAR-boosted SBVS

Paolo Tosco – Department of Drug Science and Technology, Torino (Italy)

First runner-up, addressing challenge 2

Cresset Award: Teaching molecular interactions with online interactive pharmacophore modeling

David Ryan Koes and Carlos J. Camacho – Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh

Second runner-up, addressing challenge 4

Openeye Award: Public domain chemical databases for malaria drug discovery

George Nicola, Tiqing Liu, Michael Gilson – University of California, San Diego

Third runner-up, addressing challenge 3

KNIME Award: Structure-based drug design for trypanosomal PDEB1

Khaled M. Elokely, Robert J. Doerksen – University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy

The steering committee and judging panel greatly appreciate the contribution and efforts of all six groups who submitted tutorials and materials toward furthering both computational drug discovery and open science

Tutorials were rated on a scale of 1-10 for 4 criteria

• Scientific content
• What is the quality of the underlying science?
• Is the tutorial relevant to drug discovery?
• Presentation and clarity
• Are the objectives of the tutorial clearly defined?
• Does the tutorial provide a logical workflow?
• Educational benefit
• Does the tutorial provide sufficient background? 
• Will the tutorial stimulate interest in computational chemistry and molecular modeling? 
• Does the tutorial provide a gateway to further research?
• Reproducibility
• Can the work be easily reproduced?
• Is all of the software readily available?
• Does the tutorial utilize commercial software?
• Does the tutorial require a complex installation?