We are delighted to announce that ChEBI’s beta version is now out and can be accessed at: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/beta/ As many of you know, ChEBI is a widely used database and ontology of chemical entities of biological interest. It has a growing user base numbered in the hundreds of thousands and with millions of accesses each year. ChEBI has for the past >20 years provided the biological community with access to definitive small molecule information and data, including accurate representations of often complex chemical structures. Additionally, ChEBI is used widely as a reference database and ontology by many important bioinformatics resources such as Rhea, MetaboLights, UniProt, GO, IEDB, Reactome, amongst others. ChEBI is, thus, a fundamental and core component of the global bioscience infrastructure. Outdated infrastructure Back in 2021, ChEBI's software infrastructure was increasingly fragile. ChEBI's current software code base dates back to its creation in the...
If our data resources have ever been of use to you, here’s your chance to give back! EMBL-EBI’s impact survey aims to understand the usage, impact and improvement areas of the open data resources managed by EMBL-EBI and collaborators. As well as ChEMBL and our other Chemical Biology Services , EMBL-EBI hosts some of the world’s most important collections of biological data including UniProt, Ensembl, AlphaFoldDB, and Europe PubMed Central. Your input is extremely important and will help EMBL-EBI make the case for why open data resources are critical to the life sciences. EMBL-EBI would be very grateful if you and other users in your organisation could contribute to this study by completing the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?channel=[email] The survey takes around 15 minutes and closes on the 16th of July 2025 . The results of the survey will be aggregated and anonymised, and all personal data treate...