Dr Neil Taylor presented DesertSci’s ground-breaking new software ‘Scorpion’ at the Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design at Mount Snow Resort Vermont USA. His talk “An Exploration of Network Hotspots and Cooperativity in Protein-Ligand Recognition” was in the session entitled “The State of the Art of Calculating Protein-Ligand Interactions” . Scorpion is based on the concept of cooperative networks and provides powerful new insights into tight ligand binding.