The ChEMBL-og

Before starting a new drug discovery project, it’s useful to compile existing data on compounds and targets of interest. Open access bioactivity databases such as ChEMBL support these efforts, offering structured and curated data in an easy-to-mine resource. To make the best use of ChEMBL, it’s important to understand the data types, structure and format. With this in mind, the ChEMBL team is providing a free “ Drug Design ” webinar! This webinar provides background on the ChEMBL database alongside worked examples highlighting some common scenarios in drug discovery initiatives. We’ve also included interface demos so that users can follow the examples and build upon these to extract data of interest to their project. We welcome feedback, questions, and suggestions and, as always, you can get in touch with us on our Helpdesk . In addition to this webinar, you can find our other training materials online, such as our deposition guide and introduction to the  API, as well as an FAQ ...

  If you use ChEMBL via the interface and are interested in programmatic approaches then join  our  webinar   on November 10th @ 15:30 to find out more ! In this webinar, we'll provide an overview of the ChEMBL and UniChem APIs and work through some common examples. In the meantime, don’t forget that we have further documentation on our  web services  as well as a recent ChEMBL  webinar, a Blog and series of  FAQs .  Questions? Send us a message through the  Helpdesk .

We’ve now retired the old ChEMBL website but the new interface , with a range of improved features and functionality, is fully up and running! If you’re new to ChEMBL or eager to learn more, then register for our  webinar  on March 11th @ 15:30. Don’t forget, further information can also be found in our ChEMBL Quick Tour , ChEMBL-og and FAQs . Questions? Send us a message through the Helpdesk .

We would like to announce the recent release of two online training resources for ChEMBL and UniChem. For ChEMBL, we   have developed  ‘ChEMBL: Exploring bioactive drug-like molecules’ , which will walk you through how to use the interface, step-by-step. It tackles topics such as target searching, compound searching, web services and data downloads. The course also gives you a chance to test your knowledge throughout. Additionally, Jon Chambers has created the ' UniChem: Quick Tour ' course. This course will give users a basic understanding of UniChem and the benefits it can bring to navigating small molecule resources. It will also walk you through how to conduct simple searches using UniChem and the UniChem Connectivity Search feature. I'd also like to remind you that we store recordings of our past webinars, in case you missed them. You can access these anytime and they can be found here: ...

We are pleased to announce a new round of resource-specific webinars  that will be given in May and June 2015. These four webinars will cover UniChem , ChEMBL , MyChEMBL (the ChEMBL Virtual Machine) and the ChEMBL Web Services . UniChem , 4pm BST, 13th May 2015 Register Here ChEMBL Walkthrough , 4pm BST, 20th May 2015, Register Here MyChEMBL Walkthrough , 4pm BST, 10th June 2015, Register Here ChEMBL Web Services , 4pm BST, 17th June 2015,    Currently Postponed For those of you who can't make these days/times, each 1 hour long webinar will be video recorded and will be available to watch on YouTube afterwards. Additionally, we will make the slides available for download. The video for last month's  SureChEMBL  webinar can be found here (and part 2 here ).  For more information about the webinars, or to suggest other topics to cover, please contact chembl-help@ebi.ac.uk.

After the very successful US East Coast ChEMBL Roadshow, we (Anne and George) will be on the road once again next week to spread the word on ChEMBL , myChEMBL and SureChEMBL . This time we will visit the US West Coast and specifically these venues: Tuesday 27th Jan: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Wednesday 28th: MolSoft/UCSD/Scripps, San Diego. See also here . Thursday 29th: IBM Research Centre, San Jose. Friday 30th: UCSF, San Francisco. If you are nearby and would like to attend or meet us for a chat, please get in touch.  We are grateful to SMSdrug.net for funding.  George & Anne

We've had a great response to our call for offers of venues to help us on a ChEMBL outreach tour, funded by the SMSDrug.net project. Things are shaping up pretty well, but we probably still have space for something in the Seattle area, and also space maybe for something in Philadelphia. We also will probably do both East and West coasts on the same trip, due to the very positive response. Get in touch if you are in the north-west, or north-east! jpo

It's that time of year again, when we advertise our fun and engaging course on computational drug discovery. This year it is held on the  17th to 21st November 2014 , at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambs UK. This workshop provides participants with the underlying principles of computational chemical biology and addresses how these methods are applied in the field of drug discovery. It will explore approaches to accessing data, combining different data types and introduce the tools available to assist analysis work. Practical sessions will guide participants in retrieving and analysing chemogenomic, proteomic and metabolomic data for target analysis.   Target Audience   This workshop is suitable for both academic and industrial researchers interested in drug discovery from a range of biological disciplines. An undergraduate level of biology is essential and participants should have a basic understanding of UNIX, programming and runn...

Last year Louisa Bellis toured the UK to present on SMSdrug.net  and ChEMBL. The tour was well received and a large number of people that had not heard of ChEMBL were introduced to ChEMBL. Following the success of the previous tour, Gerard van Westen (EMBL –EBI) is going to be doing a 2014 ChEMBL tour. This year’s tour will be going to the BeNeLux. For dates and locations see below. Please feel free to attend and meet up / chat on ChEMBL, contactable via email on gerardvw [at] ebi.ac.uk Current dates are as follows: 19th of May – Maastricht University Host: Egon Willighagen Time: 12.00-17.00 ChEMBL + Allosteric modulators 20th of May – Maastricht University Host: Jos Kleinjans Time: 09.00 - 11.30 ChEMBL + Advanced ChEMBL 20th of May – KU Leuven Host: Pieter Annaert Time: 14.00 -17.00 ChEMBL 21th of May – KU Leuven Host: Piet herdewyn Time: 09.00 -10.00 ChEMBL 21th of May – University of Luxembourg Host: Reinhard Schneider Time: 13.00 - 17.00 ...