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Webinar: Accessing ChEMBL Web Services via Workflow Tools.

This is gentle reminder for the forthcoming webinar on accessing  ChEMBL REST web services via KNIME and Pipeline Pilot  at  3.30 pm BST  on Wednesday,  8th August 2012  (aka  tomorrow ) . Please  email  me in advance in order to register for this.

Access to ChEMBL web services via workflow tools

As some of you may know, besides the ChEMBL web interface and the SQL dumps , there is a another way to access and retrieve data from your favourite public database, namely the RESTful web services . We have already provided API examples there using Java, Python and Perl but, as of today, we also provide examples for popular pipelining / workflow tools, such as Pipeline Pilot and KNIME . The user base of such tools is certainly growing, as they offer modularity, flexibility, transparency and higher integration and sharing capabilities compared to programming or standard software packages. In fact, demand for tighter integration between ChEMBL and these tools was one of the outcomes of our recent Workflows workshop . Indeed, using the web services via a workflow tool is a seamless way  to search, retrieve, integrate and analyse data without having to install, maintain and update local databases or write, dreaded for some, SQL queries. We have posted some useful examples ...