Knowledge Management Center for Illuminating the Druggable Genome

Andrew Leach
Dr. Leach holds degrees in Chemistry from Oxford University.
Global Head of Biomolecular Sciences.
Trustee of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre 2006-2015.
Editor of the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design 1997-2012.

Contacts

Andrew Leach profile:https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/andrew-leach
EMBL-EBI services: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/services
ChEMBL: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/

EMBL-EBI:: @emblebi

Overview

EMBL-EBI has developed tools for automated extraction and expert curation of medicinal chemistry data. The group led by A. Leach has extracted pertinent target-chemical pairs from the patent literature and late-stage drug development, as well as the clinical candidate literature.

NIH grant number: 1U24 CA224370-01

KMC-EBI publications:

Unexplored therapeutic opportunities in the human genome. Oprea TI, Bologa CG, Brunak S, Campbell A, Gan GN, Gaulton A, Gomez SM, Guha R, Hersey A, Holmes J, Jadhav A, Jensen LJ, Johnson GL, Karlson A, Leach AR, Ma'ayan A, Malovannaya A, Mani S, Mathias SL, McManus MT, Meehan TF, von Mering C, Muthas D, Nguyen DT, Overington JP, Papadatos G, Qin J, Reich C, Roth BL, Schürer SC, Simeonov A, Sklar LA, Southall N, Tomita S, Tudose I, Ursu O, Vidovic D, Waller A, Westergaard D, Yang JJ, Zahoránszky-Köhalmi G. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2018 May;17(5):317-332. doi: 10.1038/nrd.2018.14. Epub 2018 Mar 23. PMID: 29472638
Pharos: Collating protein information to shed light on the druggable genome. Nguyen DT, Mathias S, Bologa C, Brunak S, Fernandez N, Gaulton A, Hersey A, Holmes J, Jensen LJ, Karlsson A, Liu G, Ma'ayan A, Mandava G, Mani S, Mehta S, Overington J, Patel J, Rouillard AD, Schürer S, Sheils T, Simeonov A, Sklar LA, Southall N, Ursu O, Vidovic D, Waller A, Yang J, Jadhav A, Oprea TI, Guha R. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jan 4;45(D1):D995-D1002. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1072. Epub 2016 Nov 29. PMID: 27903890, PMCID: PMC5210555