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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dear @europython.eu, please respond to our (repeated) requests for reimbursement in line with the statement on your website:
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Egon Willighagen @egonw.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
icymi: ChEBI is hiring a curator! "Open Position: Chemistry Curator" chembl.blogspot.com/2026/08/open-po… #chemistry #openscience
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Open Position: Chemistry Curator
We are looking for a talented scientist with a flair for data curation to be responsible for the quality of chemical and associated data in...
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Count F.P. Morgan @ecfp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
here's a mirror of what i could find of the tenderbutton blog on archive.org now made fast and searchable in one place including comments (some missing images in newer posts) molecular.beauty/tenderbutton... enjoy! #chemsky #chemchat
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Tenderbutton — a reading archive
A readable preservation of the Tenderbutton chemistry blog and its comments.
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you're also going to the ACS, say hi. I'll be mostly at CINF.
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
We're still looking for candidates who are interested in working on an industry-relevant project in close collab with a major pharmaceutical company. It's a really nice opportunity for someone looking to transition to an industry position. #chemjobs #phdjobs #cheminformatics #bioinformatics
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Chemical Biology Resources @chembl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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ChEMBL 37 is here: bigger, cleaner, and smarter about protein degradation
ChEMBL 37 arrives with nearly three million compounds, a new modality field for capturing targeted protein degraders, and a wave of data qua...
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Serge Parel @spparel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
1/ Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget by April. ServiceNow did the same. KPMG says U.S. orgs project $207M average AI spend over the next 12 months — nearly 2x last year. The all-you-can-eat era of AI coding tools is over. The deadline matters.
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Avogadro Project @avogadro.cc · 04/04/2026
Visualize molecular orbitals and electron density easily with Avogadro 2.0. Volumetric rendering of orbitals, plus van der Waals, solvent-accessible and solvent-excluded surfaces for biomolecular work. See the chemistry, not just the atoms. #compchem #openscience #opensource
Volumetric rendering of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of pentacene. Yellow and blue indicate opposite phases of the wavefunction, with color intensity indicating the magnitude of the wavefunctionVan der Waals molecular surface of coronene, with overlaid electrostatic potential map: red = more negative charge, blue = more positive chargeRendering of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of pyrazineRendering of a graphene supercell with solvent-accessible surface (green) indicating a defect site with a hydrogen molecule and overlay of electrostatic potential (blue = more positive, red = more negative)
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My column in Chemistry World reads a little differently this month:
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‘The truth is supremely valuable and we cannot lie our way to it’
As a scientist with family in Iran, Derek Lowe finds his own government's approach to truth alarming
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The deadline for in-person registration for the upcoming ChEMBL UGM is 18th March so please register soon. It would be great to see you there. #chembl #cheminformatics #chemsky chembl.blogspot.com/2026/03/seco...
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Second announcement of 2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting
This is a reminder that the 2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting will take place on June 10-11 on the Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, near Cambri...
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Geoff Hutchison @geoffhutchison.net · 30/01/2026
Obviously a lot is going on (gestures widely) Amid chaos, I cope by doing *something* -- anything. Lately, it's been coding for @avogadro.cc because it feels like some small change I can do myself For *years* I've wanted to show electron density volumes .. little clouds ☁️☁️ #compchem
Rendering of highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of a conjugated molecule showing conventional orbital isosurfaces in red and blue bubbles.Rendering of highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of a conjugated molecule showing volumetric electron density in shades of red and blue clouds
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm publicising the ChEMBL UGM. There are various community members or organisations that maintain newsletters in the field of cheminformatics, but I'm not aware of them all. Andreas Bender has one, CICAG and CINF have more formal ones; are there others? #cheminformatics #CINF
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Blogpost that looks at how LLMs have improved at 'reasoning' over time. This is a key capability that enables many scientific workflows. baoilleach.blogspot.com/2026/01/impr...
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Improvement in reasoning performance of LLMs over time
If you tried using ChatGPT when it first came out and concluded it wasn't much use for a scientific reasoning task, it might be time to try ...
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Chemical Biology Resources @chembl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A blogpost on changes to ChEMBL data deposition: chembl.blogspot.com/2026/01/chan... ...and not unrelated, a recent talk I gave on why data curation is needed and what it involves: github.com/chembl/prese...
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Changes to ChEMBL Data Deposition
Over the years, ChEMBL has accepted 336 datasets deposited by the community. In fact, these data now comprise around 50% of the bioactivity ...
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Join the team!
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A blog post on "Classifying PubMed Abstracts with LLMs". baoilleach.blogspot.com/2026/01/clas...
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Classifying PubMed Abstracts with LLMs
I've just spent the Christmas playing with the OpenAI API, and I am impressed at what is now possible. There are 38M PubMed Abstracts (*); t...
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Chemical Biology Resources @chembl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The date for the ChEMBL UGM has been fixed for June 10-11 2026. The website is up at www.ebi.ac.uk/about/events... and registration opens in January. See you next year!
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2nd ChEMBL User Group Meeting  – EMBL-EBI Events
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Rocío Mercado Oropeza @rociomer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
👉 Just 2 weeks left to apply to these positions in our team (AI Lab for Molecular Engineering) in Sweden. Come design polymers with us! To learn more about our team, please visit our group website: ailab.bio
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My team has roles available for scientific developers either as Technical Lead (more senior) or as part of the development of a Side Effect Resource. baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/12/open... #chemsky #chemjobs #bionformatics #cheminformatics #datascience #techlead
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Openings for Scientific Developers in the Chemical Biology Services team
As part of a collaboration with Open Targets on the development of a Side Effect Resource to guide target selection, we have two positions a...
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Apply now! Or DM me if you have questions. This is a hands-on role managing the dev team responsible for #chembl, #chebi, etc. Looking forward to seeing who applies!
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Kohulan Rajan @kohulanr.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Our new paper now 🎉 Published: Cheminformatics Microservice V3! Paper: doi.org/10.1186/s133... 🛠️ Web app + API: RDKit, CDK, Open Babel — NO install, 100% open-source. Try now: app.naturalproducts.net #Cheminformatics #OpenScience #Innovation #CompChem #Opensource
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Cheminformatics Microservices UI
Cheminformatics Microservices UI - A modern interface for chemical data analysis
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Chemical Biology Resources @chembl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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Make the most of the ChEMBL interface with our newest webinar!
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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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I've gone from a review a year to being asked 6 times in as many weeks. The honeymoon period of returning to academia is well and truly over... :-)
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Chemical Biology Resources @chembl.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Want to work with me on cool stuff? #ukchemjobs #chembl #chemjobs
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Where's the best place to advertise a (computational) postdoc position? (asking for a friend...) #chemjobs #chempostdocs
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Jess Ewald @ewaldlab.org · 07/08/2025
Check out this opportunity to join my lab as a postdoc! www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos... Every year, faculty from EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute co-develop projects that allow fellows to be part of ✨both✨ of these amazing research institutes.
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EMBL-EBI-Sanger postdoctoral fellowships (ESPOD)
The ESPOD fellowship builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, offering projects that combine experimental (wet-lab) and computational (dry-lab) appr...
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
#cheminformatics #chembl #surechembl #chemjobs #chempostdocs
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Blog post on "A new job, a postdoc opportunity, an open biological curator role, and a user group meeting" baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-ne...
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A new job, a postdoc opportunity, an open biological curator role, and a user group meeting
Almost exactly 6 months ago, I took over the leadership of the Chemical Biology Services team at EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK. This is the team th...
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Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @olexandr.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Selfie with @baoilleach.bsky.social in severe violation of CADD GRC policy 😀 Cool things are coming to ChEMBL, stay tuned 🤖
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Very excited about this!
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Blog post: "A 16-year time loop" baoilleach.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-16...
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A 16-year time loop
Next week I wlil be attending the Computer Aided Drug Design Gordon Research Conference (CADD GRC) in the US (Maine). The last (and only)...
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Chris de Graaf @cdg-gpcr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Closing the loop on #GenAI for #GPCR #SBDD www.nature.com/articles/s41... tinyurl.com/yeyhfr7j
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Identification of nanomolar adenosine A2A receptor ligands using reinforcement learning and structure-based drug design - Nature Communications
Here the authors combine a deep generative model with structure-based drug design and prospectively validate functionally active, nanomolar, A2A adenosine receptor ligands and solve their crystal stru...
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
CASP is the main reason the protein structure prediction technology and research field advanced over the last 30 years. And the main reason AI based methods have been accepted and widely applied in biology. So shortsighted of NIH to postpone or even halt funding. John Moult is a scientific hero.
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Chemical Biology Resources @chembl.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The ChEMBL-og: Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey! chembl.blogspot.com/2025/06/supp...
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Support ChEMBL - EMBL-EBI user survey!
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,...
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Nathan Brown @nathanbroon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚀 Healx is launching a new blog series on practical, open-source workflows for drug discovery! First up: a KNIME + ChEMBL pipeline to explore compound-target interactions. Big thanks to #RDKit, ChEMBL, UniChem & KNIME! 🧪 Read more: medium.com/low-code-for...
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Unveiling Biological Targets with KNIME
A Hands-On Workflow Powered by ChEMBL Data
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pen(Taka) @iwatobipen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Use MCP for making query of Database #cheminformatics #AI Recently I have interest to MCP. Because MCP can engage task and API with natural language so we don't need code (BTW, I love writing code!!!!). Today I tried to make SQL query with MCP. I used Claude desktop. At first I modfied config file…
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Use MCP for making query of Database #cheminformatics #AI
Recently I have interest to MCP. Because MCP can engage task and API with natural language so we don't need code (BTW, I love writing code!!!!). Today I tried to make SQL query with MCP. I used Claude desktop. At first I modfied config file shown below. postgres part is added. $ vim ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json { "mcpServers": { "weather": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/home/iwatobipen/dev/weather", "run", "weather.py" ] }, "chemblmcp": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/home/iwatobipen/dev/chembl_mcp", "run", "chemblmcp.py" ] }, # this part is used for communicating postgres!!!
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pen(Taka) @iwatobipen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Compile GAMESS from source GAMESS is one of the major program of open source program of quantum chemistry. My former boss is QC/QM expart and I learned usefullnes of GAMESS. So I like GAMESS but recently I don't have opportunity to use GAMESS. Today I tried to compile new version of GAMESS on…
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Compile GAMESS from source
GAMESS is one of the major program of open source program of quantum chemistry. My former boss is QC/QM expart and I learned usefullnes of GAMESS. So I like GAMESS but recently I don't have opportunity to use GAMESS. Today I tried to compile new version of GAMESS on Ubuntu24 because FMOKit is publised 🙂 At first, I registered GAMESS HP…
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Chemical Biology Resources @chembl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Just one week left to apply for this position in our team, as frontend developer: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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Frontend Developer
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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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Great to be working with Daniel again.
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Geoff Hutchison @geoffhutchison.net · 08/05/2025
Too bad you can't give a Nobel prize to the PDB. How much science and medicine has been enabled because of this open resource? #OpenScience
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Matthieu Schapira @mattschap.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
@thesgc.bsky.social is generating large/open screening data and inviting data scientists to train their ML models via DREAM challenges: 1- train your model on DEL data 2- retrospectively predict 138 ASMS true positives 3- predict new hits. We will test them and publish together. bit.ly/3YXVKoT
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First DREAM Target 2035 Drug Discovery Challenge
'First DREAM Target 2035 Drug Discovery Challenge' (Synapse ID: syn65660836) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations centered around shared biomedic...
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macinchem.bsky.social @macinchem.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The patent database SureChEMBL has been updated macinchem.org/2025/05/04/s...
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SureChEMBl update – Macs in Chemistry
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Barbara Zdrazil @bzdrazil.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
In this review we are thoroughly discussing pros&cons and applications of different NLP/ AI methods for drug discovery….hoping it’s of use!
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 30/04/2025
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...
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Welcome: Noel O’Boyle
EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Biology Resources Team Leader aims to encourage community engagement and explore AI-driven approaches.
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isidrolauscher.bsky.social @isidrolauscher.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We have two #postdoc positions open to join my team at @ebi.embl.org in beautiful Cambridge! We are a mission-driven, highly collaborative and dynamic team located at the Wellcome Genome Campus, one of the most exciting hubs in the world focused on biomedical research 👇
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Your group The Cortes-Ciriano group studies the mutational processes and mechanisms of genome instability underpinning tumourigenesis, immune escape, and drug response through the analysis of high-thr...
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Noel O'Boyle @baoilleach.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Over on LinkedIn, I am polling people on whether they are interested in attending a ChEMBL UGM in person or remote. Leave a message here or follow the link if interested. (Stupid LI, you need to view desktop version of this site if on phone): www.linkedin.com/posts/noel-o...
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Noel O'Boyle posted on LinkedIn
Noel O'Boyle posted on LinkedIn
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macinchem.bsky.social @macinchem.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Well worth a read. rdcu.be/ec7xt
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Fifteen years of ChEMBL and its role in cheminformatics and drug discovery | Journal of Cheminformatics
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Christopher Southan @cdsouthan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Essential reading jcheminf.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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