Today, I (Louisa) gave a workshop talk at the Bio-IT World Expo in Boston. The title of the talk was 'Curating and Mapping the Drug Name Space in ChEMBL'. This expo is being held at the Boston World Trade Center, which is a great location right on the waterfront. It is the 10th anniversary of the expo, so I am expecting the rest of the conference to be very interesting and I have already tagged some talks that I definitely want to go to.
Followers of the ChEMBL group's activities and this blog will be aware of our involvement in the migration of the previously commercially available SureChem chemistry patent system, to a new, free-for-all system, known as SureChEMBL. Today we are very pleased to announce that the migration process is complete and the SureChEMBL website is now online. SureChEMBL provides the research community with the ability to search the patent literature using Lucene-based keyword queries and, much more importantly, chemistry-based queries. If you are not familiar with SureChEMBL, we recommend you review the content of these earlier blogposts here and here . SureChEMBL is a live system, which is continuously extracting chemical entities from the patent literature. The time it takes for a new chemical in the patent literature to become searchable in the SureChEMBL system is 1-2 days (WO patents can sometimes take a bit longer due to an additional reprocessing step). At time of writi
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