The ChEMBL-og

One of our collaborators has  just published a paper in NAR Database issue on an integrative system for Anticancer Drug Discovery - canSAR. %J Nucleic Acids Research %D 2011 %O doi:10.1093/nar/gkr881 %T canSAR: an integrated cancer public translational research and drug discovery resource %A M.D. Halling-Brown %A K.C. Bulusu %A M. Patel %A J.E. Tym %A B. Al-Lazikani The website for canSAR is https://cansar.icr.ac.uk/

Our Hinxton Data centre is being shutdown this coming weekend (Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd October 2011) for some essential maintenance. Most of the ChEMBL services will still run through this period from our London Data Centers. The key exception to this is the Structure-based Druggability Service and Portal ( www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/drugebility ). Further details of the shutdown can be found here .

Registration is open for the (excellent) EMBO Chemical Biology 2012 meeting.

The UKQSAR and ChemoInformatics Group Autumn 2011 Meeting, jointly hosted by Accelrys and Astex, will be held on Thursday November 3rd at the Accelrys European Headquarters in Cambridge. Details of the one day meeting can be found here . Looks a great meeting.

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On 1 October 2011, EMBL and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) issued a call for joint projects. The 2012 call for financial support for a basic research project covers the following priority areas: Structural biology Genomics Biomolecular chemistry Cell biology/imaging Technology development XFEL life science High-performance computing Biomolecular Chemistry will include Chemical Biology, Cheminformatics, Chemogenomics, QSAR, Predictive Toxicology, Virtual Screening, etc . The supported research must be carried out jointly by Russian and EMBL scientists and be of mutual interest. The call is open until 30 November 2011. If any Russian Federation scientists are interested in working with ChEMBL on an application for this funding call, please get in touch.

There is a conference that we are presenting some new ChEMBL work and analysis at, and also there is a talk on CanSAR. The conference is at Bilkent University, in Ankara , Turkey. Dates are fairly soon though  - 17th and 18th October 2011, but there is still time to submit an abstract - I wish more conferences were like this, in not having a big gap between the conference and any deadlines for submission. The conference website is http://www.i-cancer.org/bioinformatics2011 . As an aside, I hadn't linked Ankara in Turkey before to the word Angora (Angora is an old name for Ankara), so this is the place responsible for the Angora goat, rabbit and cat!