The ChEMBL-og

The agenda for the first ChEMBL user group meeting is below, we also have some additional speakers on various collaborative projects likely to be of interest to attendees, as extra-meeting items. Many thanks to the speakers and to Brad Sherbourne of Merck for putting this together. The presentations will be a mix of slides and generous discussion time, giving plenty of opportunity to shape the future development of ChEMBL. Friday May 27th, Courtyard Meeting Room, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD. 9.15 Coffee/Reception 9.30 Welcome to ChUG - JPO and Brad 9.45 ChEMBL update and plans - ChEMBL group 10.45 Coffee 11.00 BeautifulBind: Prioritising targets by chemistry - Andrew Hopkins 11.45 Predicting targets using ChEMBL, and application to phospholipidosis - Rob Lowe 12.15 Lunch 13.15 QSAR workbench/Active learning - David Nicolaides 13.45 Matched-pair analysis, ChEMBL and KNIME - George Papadatos 14.15 Anti-Drugs - Willem Van Hoorn 14.45 Coffee 15.00 Comparis...

Just a reminder of the first ChEMBL User Group, which will be held here on campus on Friday May 27th. Full details are on the LinkedIn group . If you are not a member, just send a join request! Attendees will each get a stick of ChEMBL rock . The agenda, with speakers, titles, etc . will be posted shortly , both here and on the LinkedIn group. The cartoon is from the eponymous xkcd

The ChEMBL Database User Group on Linkedin is perilously close to 100 members - in fact we need just one more to make it to the magic century! We have found a well known industry figure to help organise our first User Group meeting, and we'll start posting details shortly on the LinkedIn group site.

We are now amassing a reasonably sized group of users for the ChEMBL database, both for the web interface, SARfari and local install versions. We are discussing holding a user group meeting on campus here at Hinxton, for early 2011, probably in January or February. Please see the poll below.... We would also be interested to hear from one or two of our user-base to help plan and coordinate the event - if this sounds like you, please mail me. P.S. We are also planning to hold another week long training course for ChEMBL resources next year, so keep an eye on the blog if you are interested in this. Please note - the poll is now closed. We will try and arrange something in January or February next year, and would the people who were interested in helping us organise the meeting please make themselves known!