The Chemicals in a Biological Context: Metabolites, Drugs, and Beyond workshop will take place online on 13 November 2025, and it will offer hands-on experience with EMBL-EBI tools and resources to explore the biological effects of small molecules. Using a case study, the participants will be guided through workflows to investigate drug interactions with a protein target, as well as assess the downstream effects within a biological system. 

During the workshop, ChEMBL will be used to identify small molecule drugs and experimental data on their impact on targets, PDBe to evaluate target binding details, and MetaboLights to investigate the small molecule’s impact on biological systems.
 

Who should attend

This course is aimed at wet-lab scientists, such as cell biologists, enzymologists, biochemists and medicinal chemists, as well as bioinformaticians and those exploring cheminformatics. It is designed for those who would like to use EMBL-EBI data resources to interpret the effects of small-molecule drugs binding to a biological target. No programming experience is required.