Monday, 28 July 2025

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 that looks after ChEMBL, ChEBI, SureChEMBL, UniChem and OPSIN (check out our webpage, blog and follow us on LinkedIn, Bluesky). I could say a lot more about the honour of being appointed to this role, the responsibility I feel to the community, how this is the dream job for a cheminformatician, but let's keep it short!

And you can join this team too! If you want to be part of improving these services for the community, then please get in touch regarding the ARISE2 postdoc call described on our blog. There are a lot of cool things that we could do.

And that's not the only opportunity. We have just opened a role for a biological data curator. This is a key role in terms of maintaining the quality of our data. Currently this work is not very visible to the community, and we want to change that, which is one of the reasons we want to build closer links with everyone via....

...the ChEMBL UGM (!), a user group meeting around our services. We now have a provisional date, 05-06 Mar 2025 (edit: 24-25 Feb 2026). You will be hearing more about this on our blog, likely in September. Apart from everything else you might expect from a UGM, this particular meeting at the start of my 9-year tenure will play a key role in influencing future development of our services. If you want to be informed when more information is available and registration opens, please email chembl-ugm@ebi.ac.uk.

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