Biological Curator - Chemical Biology Resources
Core
Curate bioactivity and drug discovery data in the ChEMBL database, mapping measured data from scientific literature to biological entities and validating therapeutic targets.
Role type
Senior IC biological data curator (chemical biology)
Builds
High-quality open bioactivity data and associated tools for the scientific community
Domain
Chemogenomics and drug discovery
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Pharmacology knowledge, experimental assay techniques, biological data curation, bioinformatics resources, ontologies, SQL, file format manipulation (FASTA, XML, OBO), regular expressions
Preferred skills
Drug discovery environment experience, biological ontologies knowledge, relational database querying
Responsibilities
Map measured bioactivity data from scientific literature to biological entities, integrate ChEMBL data with other EMBL-EBI resources, identify and validate potential therapeutic targets, manually check and annotate data against original sources, develop semi-automated processes for data correction, train users and support external partners
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
