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

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...

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!

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...

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...

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

The ChEBI 2.0 paper has just been published by Nucleic Acids Research.

#chebi #ontology

academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

ChEMBL 36 is out! 📊 Database Scale 🆕 New Data Sources Src_ID 72 – Chemical Probe data from Scientific Literature NLP and manual extraction from probe-r...

ChEMBL 36 is out!

chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/chem...

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...

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...

Thanks!

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*)

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...

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...

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...

A second post about the redevelopment of ChEBI, this time focussing on changes to the data products.

chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/cheb...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

OPSIN chemical name-to-structure tool moves to EMBL-EBI The Open Parser for Systematic IUPAC Nomenclature (OPSIN) allows users to convert chemical names into structures and machine-readable formats.

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...

OPSIN's new home is at EMBL-EBI We are delighted to announce that the OPSIN web app has become a member of the Chemical Biology Services here at EMBL-EBI and can be acces...

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 EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Biology Resources Team Leader aims to encourage community engagement and explore AI-driven approaches.

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...