The "Chemicals in a biological context: metabolites, drugs and beyond" course, which focused on using EMBL-EBI tools and resources to identify small molecule drugs, evaluate protein binding, and investigate effects on biological systems, ran in November 2025. Here we have made the course materials available for you to access any time.

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Using these materials

Using these materials

These course materials provide a mixture of presentations and practical exercises to help advance your knowledge and skills in the analysis of biological data. You may select your topic of interest from the Course content page to view the relevant materials or work your way through all the course materials. 

To find out more about the trainers who created these materials, follow the links from the Course content page or go directly to the Trainer biographies page.

In the Further learning section you may explore the details about the EMBL-EBI’s free access online tutorials and webinars on a variety of life sciences topics.

Course Learning outcomes 

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Material collection editors

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Learning outcomes

After the course, you should be able to:

• Extract small molecule drug data from ChEMBL, including database accessions, structural representations, physicochemical properties, and drug targets/indications.
• Identify experimental structures using PDBe and interpret the drug-target binding interactions.
• Explore raw data and associated metadata, as well as protocols and methodology, in a diverse range of metabolomics studies using MetaboLights.

Material collection editors

• Genevieve Laura Evans, EMBL-EBI
• Emma Jayne Manners, EMBL-EBI
• Flaminia Zane, EMBL-EBI

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.SmallMolChem-t.2024.00001.1