In 2019 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the first public release of the ChEMBL database. To recognise this important landmark we are organising a one-day symposium to celebrate the work achieved by ChEMBL during its first ten years, and look forward to its future.
Date: Tuesday, 8th October, 2019
Venue: Francis Crick Auditorium, Wellcome Genome Conference Centre, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
Application opens: Monday, 8 April, 2019
Application deadline: Friday, 06 September, 2019
Contact: Kathryn Holmes, Fiona Hunter
Registration fee: Free, but participants are encouraged to bring a poster. Register here.
Programme
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 09:00 | Arrival, registration, coffee and poster session | |
| 10:00–11:00 | Welcome and overview of ChEMBL database with historical perspective and future goals |
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| 11:00–11:30 | Activity cliff and analog series growth in ChEMBL over time | Dagmar Stumpfe (University of Bonn, Germany) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Semantic integration of ChEMBL with internal and commercial databases at Janssen | Herman Van Vlijmen (Janssen, Belgium) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Applications of ChEMBL in drug and probe discovery | Brian Shoichet (University of California San Francisco (UCSF), US) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch & poster session | |
| 14:00-14:30 | ChEMBL, White Tea and Grasshoppers | Rita Santos (GSK, UK) |
| 14:30-15:00 | An automated SureChEMBL-based patent analysis tool to determine representative active ingredient structures | Marina Garcia de Lomana (BASF, Germany) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Learning from the Past: Time Trend Analysis Reveals Important Aspects in Drug Discovery | Barbara Zdrazil (University of Vienna, Austria) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Concluding remarks | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Celebratory birthday cake and drinks reception | |
| 17:15 | End of the Day |