{"id":54,"date":"2008-07-23T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T08:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/breaking-news-open-access-to-large-scale-drug-discovery-data-at-ebi\/"},"modified":"2008-07-23T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T08:49:24","slug":"breaking-news-open-access-to-large-scale-drug-discovery-data-at-ebi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/breaking-news-open-access-to-large-scale-drug-discovery-data-at-ebi\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Open access to large-scale drug discovery data at EBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very exciting things have just happened here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">EBI<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/steinbeck\" target=\"_blank\">area of chemoinformatics<\/a> and drug discovery:<\/p>\n<p>The Wellcome Trust has <strong>awarded \u00a34.7 million to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">European Bioinformatics Institute<\/a> (EBI)<\/strong> to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the <strong>properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules<\/strong> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofocus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BioFocus DPI<\/a>, part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glpg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">  the publicly listed company Galapagos<\/a> to the public domain.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the press releases of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/Information\/News\/pdf\/Press23July08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">EBI<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biofocus.com\/page\/downloads\/EBI-GLPG_license_TR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Galapagos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The databases will be incorporated into EBI\u2019s collection of open-access data resources for biomedical research and will be maintained by a newly established team of scientists at the EMBL-EBI. These data lie at the heart of translating information from the human genome into successful new drugs in the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>The databases to be brought into the public domain include DrugStore\u2122 (database of known drugs), StARLITe\u2122 (database of known compounds and their effects), Strudle\u2122 (binding site drugability), and Kinase SARfari\u2122 and GPCR SARfari\u2122 (informatics systems for the most widely used target classes in drug discovery).<br \/>\nThe main database, StARLITe, on Drug-Target interactions alone has hundreds of thousands of interaction data points manually curated from the medicinal chemistry literature.<\/p>\n<p>A new team leader will be appointed to support the new resource and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebi.ac.uk\/steinbeck\" target=\"_blank\">my group<\/a> will provide the chemoinformatics expertise to move the underlying analysis software into the open source world. The <a href=\"http:\/\/cdk.sourceforge.net\" target=\"_blank\">Chemistry Development Kit (CDK)<\/a> will play a major role both in freeing the QSAR code as well as in providing (sub-) structure and similarity searching to the database.<\/p>\n<p>The transfer will empower academia to participate in the first stages of drug discovery for all therapeutic areas, including major diseases of the developing world. In future it could also result in improved prediction of drug side-effects and spark all kinds of new academic research directions.<\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very exciting things have just happened here at EBI in the area of chemoinformatics and drug discovery: The Wellcome Trust has awarded \u00a34.7 million to the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steinbeck-molecular.de\/steinblog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}