19–20 September 1996: Bioinformatics and the Effective Use of the Internet for Rapid Drug Discovery, Seattle, Washington. Contact: IBC USA Conferences, Inc., 225 Turnpike Rd., Southborough, MA 01772–1749, tel. (508) 481-6400, fax (508) 481-7911.
14–17 October 1996: International Conference on Biomolecular Screening, Basel, Switzerland. Contact: Society for Biomolecular Screening, 36 Tamarack Avenue, Suite 348, Danbury, CT 06811, tel., (203) 743-1336, fax (203) 748-7557, e-mail <qzcv27@prodigy.com>.
16–17 October 1996: MARC III Workshop: Modular Automation in the Clinical Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. Contact: Robin Felder, Medical Automation Research Center, University of Virginia, Box 168, Charlottesville, VA 22908, tel. (804) 924-9430, fax (804) 924-5718.
20–23 October 1996: International Symposium on Laboratory Automation and Robotics — ISLAR, Boston, Massachusetts. Contact: Zymark, Zymark Center, Hopkinton, MA 01748, tel. (508) 435-9500, fax (508) 435-3439, e-mail <islar@zymark.com>.
20–22 November 1996: TAS, Second International Symposium on Micro Total Analysis Systems. Contact: Secretariat, Mrs. E. Müller, Corporate Analytical Research, K-127.1.54, Ciba Inc., CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland, tel. +41 61 696 2571, fax +41 61 696 4504.
18–22 January 1997: Lab Automation 97 — International conference focused on issues related to laboratory automation, Sheraton Hotel and Marina, San Diego, California. Contact: Association for Laboratory Automation, Box 572, Charlottesville, VA 22908, tel. (804) 924-9430, fax (804) 924-5718, e-mail <rfelder@virgirua.edu>.
15–18 May 1997: International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence applied to Analytical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine—ICAR 97. Contact: Scitec, Av. de Provence 20, CH-1000 Lausanne 20, Switzerland, tel. +41 21 624 1533, fax +41 21 624 1549.