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| photo by B. Zdrazil, Wellcome Genome Campus in morning glory, Dec. 2025 |
The Chemical Biology Services Team is looking back at a year full of changes, new beginnings, and the farewell of a few long-standing team members. In February, we welcomed our new Team Leader Noel O'Boyle. He brought fresh perspectives and new energy to the team, but he also had to see several team members leave as they reached the end of their contracts. We are grateful for all the contributions that Eloy Felix, Fiona Hunter, David Mendez, Juan Mosquera, A. Lina Heinzke, Cote Falguera, Melanie Schneider, and Sybilla Corbett have made to our great resources: ChEMBL, SureChEMBL, ChEBI & UniChem.
2025 has been a very productive year! OPSIN found a new home under the EBI umbrella, ChEMBL 36 - the largest data release for ChEMBL ever - was released in autumn, ChEBI 2.0 was launched and its restructuring has been published in a recent NAR article.
The team also made some great advances to push SureChEMBL, our patent database, to the next level with the addition of biomedical annotations to the downloads!
Some articles have been published as well, which showcases how actively the team is contributing to research besides keeping our resources up and running. Among those, we put together a historical perspective of the use of ChEMBL over the years, an article describing in detail drug data curation in ChEMBL, a review on NLP in drug discovery, and a careful analysis on pseudo natural products in ChEMBL and other compound libraries.
Just before the year ends, we'd like to thank our data depositors and our broad user community. Please keep challenging us in future!
Looking forward to 2026, we are organising a ChEMBL User Group Meeting at EMBL-EBI on June 10-11.
Please watch out for updates and join us to make our resources even greater!
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