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The EuroQSAR Symposia have been taking place since 1973 in different European countries. These Symposia have been major scientific events in the field of computational drug design, with applications in agricultural and environmental sciences. Fifty years ago in 1964 Corwin Hansch and Toshio Fujita published in JACS their famous report “Rho sigma pi analysis. A method for the correlation of biological activity and chemical structure”. According to July 2014 Web of Science search, this first report regarding the general ligand-based drug design approach has been cited 2008 times! Moreover, current PubMed search points toward over 170 thousand (Q)SAR-related papers published by thousands of enthusiastic researchers during the past fifty years. With its general theme of “Understanding Chemical-Biological Interactions”, the 2014 EuroQSAR symposium not only followed the tradition of previous events in presenting latest trends in QSAR and molecular modeling, but it also explored new grounds, such as representation, visualization and navigation of chemical-biological space, chemo- and bioinformatics approaches to multi-target (Q)SAR, modeling of protein-ligand interactions, computational toxicology in drug and chemical safety assessment, translational bioinformatics, and emerging QSAR and modeling methods. Finally, EuroQSAR 2014 included the Corwin Hansch honored session devoted to grand challenges for QSAR, and conducted as round table on (Q)SAR related European initiatives as well as a special session dedicated to the hot topics on modern techniques in computer-aided drug discovery. The scientific program of the Symposium includes 11 lectures, 38 oral talks, 4 brief communications of young scientists obtained the Best Poster Awards, 3 companies' workshops, and 157 posters. The Symposium was attended by 271 researchers from 38 countries: Russia - 78 people; Germany - 32 people; USA - 18 people; Sweden, Italy, Japan - 12 people from each country; France - 10 people; Belgium, Spain - 8 people from each country; Austria, South Korea - for 6 people from each country; China, Estonia, Sweden - 5 people from each country; Bulgaria, the Czech Republic - 3 people from each country; Ukraine, Australia - 2 persons from each country; one person from each country - Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, Brazil, Greece, Denmark, Israel, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Netherlands, Serbia, Finland, South African Republic. 43.2% of the participants of the Symposium were presented by researchers from academic institutes and universities; 26.4% - professionals working in the industry; 30.4% - students, graduate students and postdocs. An important part of the symposium EuroQSAR-2014 became the School for Young Russian Scientists on computer aided drug design methods, which was held at the St. Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy on 28-30 August 2014 (www.euroqsar2014.ru). School-seminar was attended by 124 scientists and students from different regions, including St. Petersburg, Moscow, Arkhangelsk, Barnaul, Volgograd, Vsevolozhsk, Yerevan, Kazan, Chernogolovka, Minsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Pushchino, Sevastopol Sertolovo, Syktyvkar, Taganrog, Tomsk, Cheboksary, Yaroslavl. EuroQSAR-2014 Symposium was organized by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Committee on Science and High School of the Saint-Petersburg Government, Saint-Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy, Saint-Petersburg State Research University of Informational Technologies, Mechanic and Optics, Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, and LD Organisation; it was supported by the European Federation of Medicinal Chemistry Societies.