Dr Neil Taylor will be presenting DesertSci’s Viper software, our fragment-based ligand design tool, at the Dallas ACS meeting in March 2014. The presentation is part of the session ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research: Symposium in Honor of Martin Stahl. Desertsci acknowledges the importance of our close collaboration with F.Hoffmann-La Roche, over many years. It is an honour for Dr Taylor to be asked to give a presentation on the innovative research culminating from the work done with Dr Stahl and his colleagues in Basel.