2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting
We invite you to join the ChEMBL User Group Meeting (UGM), which is dedicated to building and supporting the ChEMBL and SureChEMBL user community. The meeting will take place on 10th and 11th June 2026 at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton, UK and via Zoom.
ChEMBL is a manually curated database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. It brings together chemical, bioactivity and genomic data to aid the translation of genomic information into effective new drugs.
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Description: Shows a summary of the ChEMBL entities and quantities of data for each of them.

Instructions: Click on a bubble to explore a specific ChEMBL entity in more detail.


Citing ChEMBL
The ChEMBL Database in 2023: a drug discovery platform spanning multiple bioactivity data types and time periods.
Barbara Zdrazil, Eloy Felix, Fiona Hunter, Emma J Manners, James Blackshaw, Sybilla Corbett, Marleen de Veij, Harris Ioannidis, David Mendez Lopez, Juan F Mosquera, Maria Paula Magarinos, Nicolas Bosc, Ricardo Arcila, Tevik Kizilören, Anna Gaulton, A Patrícia Bento, Melissa. F Adasme, Pater Monecke, Gregory A Landrum, Andrew R Leach
- Nucleic Acids Res. 2023: gkad1004. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad1004

ChEMBL web services: streamlining access to drug discovery data and utilities.
Davies M, Nowotka M, Papadatos G, Dedman N, Gaulton A, Atkinson F, Bellis L, Overington JP.
- Nucleic Acids Res. 2015; 43(W1):W612-20, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv352
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