Chemical Biology Services
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The Chemical Biology Services team at EMBL-EBI provides free resources supporting drug discovery and handling small molecules in biological databases.
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
A week in the Life of a ChEMBL Biological Curator - Monday
This image was generated using AI. Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out what we were up to during th...
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Last chance to apply to work on this exciting project, part of a larger collaboration with UCL. Closing date Jun 17th.
Chemical Biology Services@chembl.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe 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...
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...
Open Position: Computational Biologist / Bioinformatician
We are looking for a highly motivated Computational Biologist / Bioinformatician (*) to join the Chemical Biology Resources team at the Euro...
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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-...
The first PROTAC has been approved: can we find it in ChEMBL?
ChEMBL extracts data from the core medicinal chemistry literature and therefore reflects ongoing developments in drug discovery. ...
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Last chance to sign up to attend the our UGM. See you there? chembl.blogspot.com/2026/05/chem...
ChEMBL UGM: Registration closes on 18th May
The full programme for the ChEMBL UGM (June 10-11) is now available on our website. If you are interested in registering, you need to be q...
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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...
Help Shape the Future of ChEMBL: Take Our User Survey Now!
Dear ChEMBL and SureChEMBL Community, As you know we are dedicated to keeping ChEMBL and SureChEMBL world-class resources for the sc...
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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...
Second announcement of 2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting
This is a reminder that the 2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting will take place on June 10-11 on the Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, near Cambri...
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Interesting post from the ChEMBL team. macinchem.org/2026/01/27/s...
Supporting LIGAND-AI’s search for ligands for understudied targets – Macs in Chemistry
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We've been curating the Target Protein Degradation (TPD) data in ChEMBL. Read more at chembl.blogspot.com/2026/01/expl...
Exploring Targeted Protein Degradation Data in ChEMBL
Drug modalities continue to evolve and the capture of data from recent literature ensures that ChEMBL remains up-to-date with recent dev...
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Registration is now open at www.ebi.ac.uk/about/events...
2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting – EMBL-EBI Events
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Chemical Biology Services@chembl.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe 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!
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...
Changes to ChEMBL Data Deposition
Over the years, ChEMBL has accepted 336 datasets deposited by the community. In fact, these data now comprise around 50% of the bioactivity ...
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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
Joining the group – Chemical Biology Services
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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!
2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting – EMBL-EBI Events
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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...
NLP Data Scientist/Scientific Data Engineer
About the team/job Safety and toxicology concerns remain one of the most persistent challenges in drug discovery. This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team on a project to deve...
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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]
New position: NLP Data Scientist/Scientific Data Engineer
As part of a funded collaboration with Open Targets, there are two open positions as part of a team to develop a drug side effect resource:...
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...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...
Open Position: Technical Lead Chemical Biology Services
We are looking for a new Technical Lead to lead the technical maintenance and development of our group's services . This is an exciting opp...
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The ChEBI 2.0 paper has just been published by Nucleic Acids Research. #chebi #ontology academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
ChEBI: re-engineered for a sustainable future
Abstract. Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a high-quality, manually curated, and open-access database and ontology of chemical entities
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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...
Make the most of the ChEMBL interface with our newest webinar!
Before starting a new drug discovery project, it’s useful to compile existing data on compounds and targets of interest. Open access bioacti...
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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...
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Last chance to apply for this pivotal role, taking our services to the next level. Get in touch by end of Aug if interested...
Chemical Biology Services@chembl.bsky.social · last yr.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...
Who would like to see 3D structures on ChEMBL? (*my hand shoots up*)
Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸@olexandr.bsky.social · 12mo agoLatest @chemrxiv.org preprint! "Scalable Low-Energy Molecular Conformer Generation with QM Accuracy" Collab. w/ NVIDIA We created ChEMBL3D, dataset of 3D structures for 1.8M drug-like molecules from ChEMBL. All optimized with solvent effect. #chemsky #compchem chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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...
Unleashing 4 million IUPAC names into the wild
In support of Egon Willighagen's ' One Million IUPAC Names ' project, we have just released more than 4 million IUPAC names text-mined from...
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A second post about the redevelopment of ChEBI, this time focussing on changes to the data products. chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/cheb...
ChEBI 2.0 Data Products
Image generated using DALLE-3 Introduction Dear ChEBI users, If you have visited the ChEBI website recently, you have been able to intuit t...
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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...
Invite to apply for ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Chemical Biology Services team invites applications for a 3-year ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship – a unique postdoctoral opportunity th...
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🚨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...
The Redevelopment of ChEBI
We are delighted to announce that ChEBI’s beta version is now out and can be accessed at: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/beta/ As many of you ...
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