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Make the most of the ChEMBL interface with our newest webinar!

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · 20d

We've just released a webinar that provides background on the #chembl database alongside worked examples highlighting some common scenarios in drug discovery initiatives.

chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/make...

Before starting a new drug discovery project, it’s useful to compile existing data on compounds and targets of interest. Open access bioacti...

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · 23d

We have gone back in time and generated SQLite files for all releases of #ChEMBL from version 1 onwards making it easier to carry out analyses across ChEMBL versions.

chembl.blogspot.com/2025/09/sqli...

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks!

Invite to apply for ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship

Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Aug 21

Last chance to apply for this pivotal role, taking our services to the next level. Get in touch by end of Aug if interested...

Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jul 14

We are inviting applications for a 3-year ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship with the team. Read more on our blog at: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/invi...

The Chemical Biology Services team invites applications for a 3-year ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship – a unique postdoctoral opportunity th...

Cambridge Press Open Research Platform server

Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Aug 20

Who would like to see 3D structures on ChEMBL? (*my hand shoots up*)

Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @olexandr.bsky.social · Aug 20

Latest @chemrxiv.org preprint! "Scalable Low-Energy Molecular Conformer Generation with QM Accuracy" Collab. w/ NVIDIA
We created ChEMBL3D, dataset of 3D structures for 1.8M drug-like molecules from ChEMBL. All optimized with solvent effect. #chemsky #compchem chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

chemrxiv.org

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Aug 8

In support of @egonw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 's 'One Million IUPAC Names' project, we have just released more than 4 million IUPAC names text-mined from patents.

Read more at: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/08/unle...

Unleashing 4 million IUPAC names into the wild

In support of Egon Willighagen's ' One Million IUPAC Names ' project, we have just released more than 4 million IUPAC names text-mined from...

Image generated using DALLE-3 Introduction Dear ChEBI users, If you have visited the ChEBI website recently, you have been able to intuit t...

Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jul 21

A second post about the redevelopment of ChEBI, this time focussing on changes to the data products.

chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/cheb...

ChEBI 2.0 Data Products

Invite to apply for ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship

Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jul 14

We are inviting applications for a 3-year ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship with the team. Read more on our blog at: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/invi...

The Chemical Biology Services team invites applications for a 3-year ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship – a unique postdoctoral opportunity th...

The Redevelopment of ChEBI

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · Jul 14

🚨Our user survey is closing on 24 July.

Only a few days left to share your views. Please take 10 minutes to help us demonstrate the value of the data resources we manage with our collaborators.

Complete survey 👇 www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch...

🖥️🧬 #FAIRdata

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jul 11

ChEBI is undergoing a redevelopment. Read more on our blog at:

chembl.blogspot.com/2025/07/rede...

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 ...

Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey!

Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jul 11

We would very much appreciate people taking the time to fill our impact survey. This helps makes the case for support for our resources. Survey closes on July 16th.

Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jun 25

The ChEMBL-og: Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey! chembl.blogspot.com/2025/06/supp...

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,...

Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey!

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Tobi Alegbe @tobioinformatics.bsky.social · Jul 8

Last but by no means least, we chose to take a reversed approach and check which of our colocalised IBD genes were ALREADY drug targets for non-IBD diseases. With a little help from
@chembl.bsky.social
and
@opentargets.org
, we noticed two particularly interesting cases: PSEN2 and NDUFAF1…

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jun 25

The ChEMBL-og: Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey! chembl.blogspot.com/2025/06/supp...

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,...

We are looking for a talented frontend developer to join the Chemical Biology team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. T...

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · May 26

Just one week left to apply for this position in our team, as frontend developer:

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Frontend Developer

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com

OPSIN chemical name-to-structure tool moves to EMBL-EBI

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · May 21

As chemical data grows, turning names into machine-readable structures is key for discovery, automation, and data integration.

OPSIN – now hosted at EMBL-EBI – helps solve this by converting IUPAC names into chemical structures and other machine-readable formats.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

The Open Parser for Systematic IUPAC Nomenclature (OPSIN) allows users to convert chemical names into structures and machine-readable formats.

OPSIN's new home is at EMBL-EBI

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · May 17

In collaboration with Dr Daniel Lowe, we are delighted to announce that the new home of the OPSIN web service is at EMBL-EBI. This well-known service converts systematic IUPAC names to structure.

Read more on our post: chembl.blogspot.com/2025/05/opsi...

We are delighted to announce that the OPSIN web app has become a member of the Chemical Biology Services here at EMBL-EBI and can be acces...

The SureChEMBL 2.0 release includes expanded global patent coverage, a rebuilt annotation pipeline, a new unified bulk-download format, and more to come.

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · May 7

Major changes are on the way to SureChEMBL...

EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · May 7

Introducing SureChEMBL 2.0

This upgraded SureChEMBL includes wider patent coverage, a re-engineered annotation pipeline and new bulk-download format, with more enhancements to come.

Find out more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

SureChEMBL 2.0 is here

EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Biology Resources Team Leader aims to encourage community engagement and explore AI-driven approaches.

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · Apr 30

Welcome, Noel O’Boyle!

Joining as EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Resources Team Leader, Noel brings with him a background in chemistry, programming, & data-driven drug discovery 💊

Find out more:
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

Welcome: Noel O’Boyle

Target: Receptor tyrosine-protein kinase erbB-2 (CHEMBL2311234)

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jan 14

The ChEMBL web interface now also displays cross links to Alpha Fold Database. Here is an example: www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/explo...

Report card for Target Receptor tyrosine-protein kinase erbB-2 (CHEMBL2311234). Mus musculus, SINGLE PROTEIN, 2.7.10.1, CD_antigen=CD340, Erbb2, Kiaa3023, Neu, ...

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Chemical Biology Services @chembl.bsky.social · Jan 9

The ChEMBL group is now posting on Bluesky!