Chemical Biology Resources

An interesting use of ChEMBL, by friend of the group, Chris Swain.

We're still inviting applications from interested candidates for this postdoctoral fellowship. Get in touch directly if interested. #chemjobs #cheminformatics #bioinformarics

Interested in a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship developing our services, and working in collaboration with a major pharmaceutical company? Then checkout this blogpost, and get in touch asap: chembl.blogspot.com/2026/06/invi...

Interested in a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship developing our services, and working in collaboration with a major pharmaceutical company? Then checkout this blogpost, and get in touch asap: chembl.blogspot.com/2026/06/invi...

Last few spaces remaining for our six-hour virtual workshop, 'Small molecules and their protein targets: interactions, function, and classification': www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Register by 10 August 2026. @chembl.bsky.social | @pdbeurope.bsky.social | #UniProt 🧬 📊 🖥️

Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? We have two biological curators in the ChEMBL team, and over the course of this week, we'll look at typical activities one day at a time. We begin with Monday… chembl.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-we... #cheminformatics #chembl

Last chance to apply to work on this exciting project, part of a larger collaboration with UCL. Closing date Jun 17th.

We have an opening for a Computational Biologist or Bioinformatician as part of the LIGMAP project with UCL, whose goal is to identify ligands for proteins of unknown function. Apply by June 17th to come work with us on the Genome Campus near Cambridge, UK. chembl.blogspot.com/2026/06/open...

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What is the value of open data for the life sciences? 📈 New report by Frontier Economics shows that EMBL-EBI data resources save users an average of 11 hours/week/person, leading to £11.8bn/year in research productivity gains. s.embl.org/EMBL-EBI-202... #opendata

We have been working on curating data on new modalities, especially in the context of targeted protein degraders. This is very timely with the recent approval of the first PROTAC for therapeutic use, Vepdegestrant. Read more about what's coming in ChEMBL 37: chembl.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Last chance to sign up to attend the our UGM. See you there? chembl.blogspot.com/2026/05/chem...

In advance of the ChEMBL/SureChEMBL UGM, we are running a survey to solicit feedback on our user interfaces, data offerings, and indeed more broadly on our future direction. Your response will be much appreciated as it tells us where to focus our resources. chembl.blogspot.com/2026/05/help...

The deadline for in-person registration for the upcoming ChEMBL UGM is 18th March so please register soon. It would be great to see you there. #chembl #cheminformatics #chemsky chembl.blogspot.com/2026/03/seco...

Interesting post from the ChEMBL team. macinchem.org/2026/01/27/s...

We've been curating the Target Protein Degradation (TPD) data in ChEMBL. Read more at chembl.blogspot.com/2026/01/expl...

Registration is now open at www.ebi.ac.uk/about/events...

A blogpost on changes to ChEMBL data deposition: chembl.blogspot.com/2026/01/chan... ...and not unrelated, a recent talk I gave on why data curation is needed and what it involves: github.com/chembl/prese...

Last chance (closing dates Jan 11) to apply for open positions in the team: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/teams/... 1. Technical Lead for the team - could be someone with either a scientific or computing background. 2. NLP Data Scientist/Scientific Data Engineer, to develop a drug side effect resource

The date for the ChEMBL UGM has been fixed for June 10-11 2026. The website is up at www.ebi.ac.uk/about/events... and registration opens in January. See you next year!

NEW: NLP data scientists/scientific data engineers at @ebi.embl.org Develop a comprehensive open source side effect resource and standardised AI/ML training sets to improve early identification of safety liabilities Apply by 11 January embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Text-mining tools have progressed a lot in the last two decades, and I'm excited to see what can be done now. More info chembl.blogspot.com/2025/12/new-... Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin... The position is at @ebi.embl.org #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky #ChemSky #BioSky [3/3]

...but life intervened and funding changed, so SIDER sideeffects.embl.de is unfortunately gathering dust since its last update in 2015. But there's good news: @chembl.bsky.social and @opentargets.org are starting a new effort to mine the available data and produce a high-quality databases! [2/3]

We are looking for a new Technical Lead for our group. This is an exciting opportunity for someone either from a scientific or informatics background to play a key role in our team which has a huge impact on the scientific communities that we serve: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/12/open...

The ChEBI 2.0 paper has just been published by Nucleic Acids Research. #chebi #ontology academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

ChEMBL 36 is out! chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/chem...

We've just released a webinar that provides background on the #chembl database alongside worked examples highlighting some common scenarios in drug discovery initiatives. chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/make...

We have gone back in time and generated SQLite files for all releases of #ChEMBL from version 1 onwards making it easier to carry out analyses across ChEMBL versions. chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/sqli...

Last chance to apply for this pivotal role, taking our services to the next level. Get in touch by end of Aug if interested...

Who would like to see 3D structures on ChEMBL? (*my hand shoots up*)

In support of @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 's 'One Million IUPAC Names' project, we have just released more than 4 million IUPAC names text-mined from patents. Read more at: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/08/unle...

A second post about the redevelopment of ChEBI, this time focussing on changes to the data products. chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/cheb...

We are inviting applications for a 3-year ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship with the team. Read more on our blog at: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/invi...

🚨Our user survey is closing on 24 July. Only a few days left to share your views. Please take 10 minutes to help us demonstrate the value of the data resources we manage with our collaborators. Complete survey 👇 www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch... 🖥️🧬 #FAIRdata

ChEBI is undergoing a redevelopment. Read more on our blog at: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/rede...

We would very much appreciate people taking the time to fill our impact survey. This helps makes the case for support for our resources. Survey closes on July 16th.

Last but by no means least, we chose to take a reversed approach and check which of our colocalised IBD genes were ALREADY drug targets for non-IBD diseases. With a little help from @chembl.bsky.social and @opentargets.org , we noticed two particularly interesting cases: PSEN2 and NDUFAF1…

The ChEMBL-og: Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey! chembl.blogspot.com/2025/06/supp...

Just one week left to apply for this position in our team, as frontend developer: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

As chemical data grows, turning names into machine-readable structures is key for discovery, automation, and data integration. OPSIN – now hosted at EMBL-EBI – helps solve this by converting IUPAC names into chemical structures and other machine-readable formats. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

In collaboration with Dr Daniel Lowe, we are delighted to announce that the new home of the OPSIN web service is at EMBL-EBI. This well-known service converts systematic IUPAC names to structure. Read more on our post: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/05/opsi...

Major changes are on the way to SureChEMBL...

Welcome, Noel O’Boyle! Joining as EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Resources Team Leader, Noel brings with him a background in chemistry, programming, & data-driven drug discovery 💊 Find out more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

The ChEMBL web interface now also displays cross links to Alpha Fold Database. Here is an example: www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/explo...

The ChEMBL group is now posting on Bluesky!