Dr John Holliday

Dr John Holliday

BSc (Staffordshire), PhD (Sheffield)
Senior Research Manager

Contact details

Email address: j.d.holliday@sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: 0114 2222685 (External) 22685 (Internal)
Fax: 0114 2780300
Room Location: Room 319 (located within Room 323), Third Floor, Regent Court

Professional standing

  • Trustee of the Chemical Structure Association Trust (2001-)
  • Organising Committee for triennial Joint Sheffield Conferences on Chemoinformatics (2001-)

Research interests

Chemical database diversity and compound selection; evolutionary programming methods; comparison of similarity coefficients and data fusion techniques.

Teaching activities

Web scripting and content management; Chemoinformatics software; Programme team member for MSc (Res) Chemoinformatics; Module coordinator for Content Management Systems.

Project Management

Project Manager of Sheffield Uni-Tech trainee technician programme.

Uni-Tech

Key publications

Haranczyk, M. & Holliday, J. Comparison of Similarity Coefficients for Clustering and Compound Selection, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 48, 2008, 498-508

Holliday, J.D., Salim, N. & Willett, P. On the magnitudes of coefficient values in the calculation of chemical similarity and dissimilarity, American Chemical Society Symposium Series 894, 2005, 77-95

Holliday, J.D., Rodgers, S.L., Willett, P., Chen, M.-Y., Mahfouf, M., Lawson, K. & Mullier, G. Clustering files of chemical structures using the fuzzy k-means clustering method, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 44, 2004, 894-902

Salim, N., Holliday, J.D. & Willett, P. Combination of fingerprint-based similarity coefficients using data fusion, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 43, 2003, 435-442

Holliday, J.D., Jelfs, S.P., Willett, P. & Gedeck, P. Calculation of inter-substituent similarity using R-group descriptors, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 43, 2003, 406-411

Holliday, J.D., Hu, C.-Y. & Willett, P. Grouping of coefficients for the calculation of inter-molecular similarity and dissimilarity using 2D fragment bit-strings, Combinatorial Chemistry and High-Throughput Screening 5, 2002, 155-166

Edgar, S.J., Holliday, J.D. & Willett, P. Effectiveness of retrieval in similarity searches of chemical databases: a review of performance measures, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling 18, 2000, 343-357

Gardiner, E.J., Holliday, J.D., Willett, P., Wilton, D.J. & Artymiuk, P.J. Selection of reagents for combinatorial synthesis using clique detection, Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships 17, 1998, 232-236

Holliday, J.D. & Lynch, M.F. Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents Part 16 The refined search: an algorithm for matching components of generic chemical structures at the atom-bond level, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 35, 1995, 1-7

Holliday, J.D. & Lynch, M.F. Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents Part 17 Evaluation of the Refined Search, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 35, 1995, 659-662

Holliday, J.D., Ranade, S.S. & Willett, P. A fast algorithm for selecting sets of dissimilar structures from large chemical databases, Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships 14, 1995, 501-506

Holliday, J.D., Downs, G.M., Gillet, V.J. & Lynch, M.F. Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents 15 Generation of Topological Fragment Descriptors from Nontopological Representations of Generic Structure Components, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 33, 1993, 369-377

Holliday, J.D., Downs, G.M., Gillet, V.J. & Lynch, M.F. Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents 14 Fragment Generation from Generic Structures, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences 32, 1992, 453-462

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