EBSCO Information Services introduces ‘Scholarly Graph’ linked data framework. The platform aims to enable researchers to uncover connections, trace impact and navigate scholarly network more intuitively: www.researchinformation.info/news/ebsco-i... Source: Research Information (RI Media)

Contribution from Sally Bloodworth, Simon Coles and Cerys Willoughby, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton and Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI), University of Southampton Read here: www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...

One day to go for the RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representations Meeting 2026! Here are some confirmed speakers and the title for their talks! 🎤 Event details here: lnkd.in/gzcfRaGh

Two days to go for the RSC CICAG Chemical Structure Representations Meeting 2026! Here are some confirmed speakers and the title for their talks! 🎤 Event details here: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

Csaba Szabo, Unreliable Interesting, well researched book documenting the continuing problems in scientific publishing on the irreproducibility and inability to replicate of much scientific research and publishing. Read the full review (pg: 34) - www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

‼️ Don't miss out! Register today: t.ly/MtHVv Registration end soon! For any queries, feel free to send us a message. Programme details, venue details, bursary applications available here: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

🔗 Register here: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/chemicalstru... To apply for a bursary, please click here 👉 t.ly/brsry

Contribution from Dr Ryan Greenhalgh, CTO and Dr Tushar Modi, Research Scientist. TLDR Cofolding models are only as strong as their data and securely shared protein–ligand datasets are now the bottleneck to use in drug-discovery programs. Read the full article: www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

Including scientific publishing, pharmaceutical industry, online information, and commercial scientific software: www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi... Contribution from: Phil McHale, MRSC

🚨 Important Dates: - Abstract deadline: End of March - Registration deadline: 2nd April - Cancellation deadline*: 20th March - Payments deadline: 2nd April 🔗 Register here: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/chemicalstru... To apply for a bursary, please click here 👉 t.ly/brsry

The RSC-CICAG are offering a small number of bursaries to attend the meeting in person. Applications are open to PhD and post-doctoral applicants studying at academic institutions or non-profit institutions. ‼️ Apply for a bursary here: t.ly/-N2uo

Register 👉 t.ly/MtHVv We're also offering a small number of bursaries to attend the meeting in person. Applications are open to PhD and post-doctoral applicants studying at academic institutions or non-profit institutions 👉 t.ly/-burs Abstract submissions are also open 👉 t.ly/Abstract

The 9th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Symposium's Speaker list is out! Event details here: t.ly/OIEIv We are excited to announce that Layla Hosseini-Gerami, Chief Data Science Officer at Ignota Labs, will be speaking at the event! Book your spots! 🚨 Direct registration link 👉 t.ly/l8V3O

6 days to go for RSC Analyticode 2026! 🎊 ‼️ Last few days left to register! ‼️ 📍 Click the link and reserve your spot ⎯ registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/354/regi...

Have you registered for the RSC Analyticode 2026 yet? 👉 www.rsc.org/events/detai... 🚨 Last few days left for standard registration: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

The 9th Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry Symposium's Speaker list is out! Details and registration link here: t.ly/ddHyn Jackson Burns will be talking about the deep learning foundation models from classical molecular descriptors. 🚨 Register here 👉 t.ly/ddHyn

If you intend to apply to this funding opportunity, your research organisation must complete this survey by 16 March 2026: engagementhub.ukri.org/epsrc-ai-rob... Applications close March 16th!

Each fellowship offers up to £8 million over ten years to enable exceptional mid-career researchers to establish world-leading research groups within UK universities. For further information Professor Jelfs can be contacted at [email protected]

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Read about MADICES 2025 (pg: 77) - www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

Contribution from Dr Ryan Greenhalgh, CTO, deepmirror, and Dr Tushar Modi, Research Scientist, deepmirror. 🖇️ pg 68: www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

Have you registered for the RSC Analyticode 2026 yet? 👉 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

"The usual argument in favour of continuing to use mol2 files is that they are the only standard chemical file format we have that supports partial charges, which are important for many tasks in computational chemistry. This is no longer the case." Read here (pg: 60) - t.ly/Wb0jG

NFDI4Chem is playing a leading role in Germany in this regard: the consortium not only provides technical infrastructure but also shapes the discussion on standards, ontologies, and subject-specific data competencies, particularly through (inter)national networking. 🔗 Read more (pg-39): t.ly/Wb0jG

Please try out the latest version: iupac-inchi.github.io/InChI-Web-De... Remember to switch the version to “Latest with Molecular Inorganics” to experiment with the new features. This will generate a non-standard InChI which is being tested for all molecules including those with bonds to metal atoms

This one-day conference brings together leaders in laboratory automation, analytical sciences, digital innovation, and computational chemistry to explore the practical and strategic steps required to build the lab of the future ✅ Register here: registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

The dates for the 2026 meetings are 18 February 2026, 22 April 2026, 2 September 2026, 11 November 2026 (all Wednesdays, 4pm UK time, Hybrid Mode). AA details here: macinchem.org/2026/02/03/c...

Early in 2025, Nantwich Museum was awarded an Outreach grant from the RSC to develop a range of activities and events with a “chemistry of colour” theme, which took place in the summer and autumn of 2025. Read all about it here: www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

Royal Society of Chemistry Chemistry Databases Update: Contribution from Tamara Hughes, and Susan Richardson Read all about it in the latest issue of Distillate (Pg: 66-67): www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

Contribution from Sally Bloodworth, Simon Coles and Cerys Willoughby, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton Image credit: ErrantScience Read the full report (pg:4): www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

Today, the CSD contains more than 1.3 million organic and metal-organic experimental crystal structures, contributed by over half a million authors from more than 110 countries. 🔗 Read the full article in the latest issue of Distillate (pg: 64): www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

And with InChI article featured on the cover, Happy New Year all

I really enjoy being the editor of the @rsc-cicag.bsky.social Newsletter (now the CICAG Distillate)- the latest issue is available at rsccicag.org/newsletters.htm. Thanks to the many authors who contributed

As part of our monthly #ChemCareers webinar series, we are looking for technical professionals who work with or are involved in #AI to take part in a session in 2026 which will cover: [contd]

The UKeiG is pleased to announce that the worthy recipient of the international Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award for 2025 is Professor Noriko Kando of the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan for her pioneering role in information retrieval research, development and systems evaluation.

This one-day conference brings together leaders in laboratory automation, analytical sciences, digital innovation, and computational chemistry to explore the practical and strategic steps required to build the lab of the future. More Information: www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Find out more and apply: itss.org.uk/knowledge-ex... This opportunity allows individuals to learn from world-class research centres and technical experts from across the globe. Placements are fully funded for UK technical professionals who successfully meet the eligibility and selection criteria.

The Technician Travel and Training Grant will reopen in January 2026, to support Royal Society of Chemistry's technician members to attend training activities taking place after 1 April 2026. Apply here for the Technician Travel and Training Grant before 9 February 2026: www.rsc.org/funding-and-...

Abstract submission is now open for oral and poster presentations. Please click here to submit your abstract: hg3.co.uk/analyticode/ The deadline for submissions is Friday 30th January 2026

The new issue of Distillate is out now! Read it here: www.rsccicag.org/index_htm_fi...

CAS SciFinder is the world’s most current & relied on source for chemical substance information. Inform your critical research activities with authoritative details on chemical substances & their related chemical structures, chemical names, regulatory information, & properties. Read more: t.ly/OOTly

On behalf of RSC-CICAG, we wish you a very Happy New Year. May the year ahead bring continued collaboration, high-quality chemical data, and shared progress toward more open, reliable, and reusable information across the chemical sciences.

As part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) the NFDI4Chem consortium has set itself the goal of facilitating the planning, collection, storage, processing, analysis and publication of research data. Read more (pg: 35-37): t.ly/-upiJ

This webinar provided an overview of the chemical biology resources at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI focusing on the ChEMBL database. Watch video: embl-ebi.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Creating a purpose-built repository of standardised reaction data is a tall order, but the reward would be huge. This is what Phil Kay writes for Chemistry World Read the full article: www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/we-n...

RSC CICAG Open Source Tools for Chemistry :- Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) Knowledge Base PDBe is a founding member of the WORLDWIDE PROTEIN DATA BANK FOUNDATION INC which collects, organises and disseminates data on biological macromolecular structures. Watch our YouTube about it: t.ly/XSefk

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas on behalf of the RSC-CICAG team! As the year reaches equilibrium, we wish you time to reflect, recharge, and return in the New Year with renewed energy, stable foundations, and a few well-catalysed ideas. Happy Holidays! 🎄

Contribution from Dr Wendy Warr, Wendy Warr & Associates. Report reproduced with permission. More to read about the legacy of Dr. Kennard: lnkd.in/eN9RNwmF (pg:46)

"Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) affects the heart and peripheral nerves, and advanced cases still lack effective treatments. Building on our prototype ligand mds84, we designed bivalent molecules that better stabilize TTR." Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 2025. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Report on the New Approaches to the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease conference by Dr. Chris Swain: www.cambridgemedchemconsulting.com/news/index_f...