The ChEMBL-og

 The ChEMBL Team heads off soon on their Christmas holidays! Before we leave, we would like to remember  some highlights of 2022 and share some outlook for the next year! 2022 was an extraordinary year for the UK and also for the ChEMBL Team! It was a year of celebrations, farewells, and new beginnings....   The ChEMBL team underwent major personnel changes in 2022 , with Anna and Patricia leaving the team, and Barbara, Eloy and Fiona taking on new roles within the ChEMBL leadership team. 2022 was a year of extremes as well. The UK recorded >40C in July and -6C in the past few days in December.  During the hot summer months the ChEMBL Team went on a punting excursion on the River Cam. In 2022, the ChEMBL Team delivered lots of training and outreach activities including a "Wetland Nature Trail" on Campus organised by Emma and James. We also participated in the "School of Chemoinformatics in Latin America", where the ChEMBL web-interface and API were explained ...

Recently, the ChEMBL team participated in the " School of Chemoinformatics in Latin America " which was kindly organized by José Medina-Franco and Karina Martinez-Mayorga (both at the National Autonomous University of Mexico). The event was very well attended with 1,181 registrants from 79 different countries. 57% of the participants attended from Latin America, 23% from Asia, and around 8% from Africa and Europe, respectively. 52% of the participants were students (undergraduate and graduate students). Distribution by country Distribution by role Participants could learn a bou t the ChEMBL database and UniChem. We covered different topics to answer these questions: • What is ChEMBL and how is it structured ? • Which data does ChEMBL contain ? • How is data extracted from scientic articles ? • How is the data in ChEMBL curated ? • How is drug ...