--- title: 'Software Daily Summary: What Happened on November 8, 2026' headline: Open-source tool predicts drug targets with ChEMBL 37 description: A separate guide describes how researcher Stephen Turner built personal and lab websites with Markdown and open-source tools. url: https://thebench.bio/news/software/2026-11-08 topic: software date: '2026-11-08' covers: - '2026-11-08' date_published: '2026-11-09T00:01:17Z' date_modified: '2026-11-09T00:01:17Z' tags: - Software sources: 2 publisher: TheBench.Bio --- # Software Daily Summary: What Happened on November 8, 2026 **Open-source tool predicts drug targets with ChEMBL 37** A separate guide describes how researcher Stephen Turner built personal and lab websites with Markdown and open-source tools. ## Today in brief A new open-source tool applies the Similarity Ensemble Approach to ChEMBL 37, with a Python API and web interface for predicting potential drug targets. [1] In a suvorexant test, its five top-ranked targets were similar to, but not identical to, those from the original implementation. [1] Stephen Turner described using Markdown, Pandoc, GitHub and Netlify for personal and lab websites, including a 5 KB lab site that loads in about 300 milliseconds. [2] ## Open-source target-prediction tool uses ChEMBL 37 The open-source tool implements the Similarity Ensemble Approach (SEA), which predicts potential drug targets by comparing chemical similarity, using ChEMBL 37. [1] Its Python API and web interface support SMILES, a text format for chemical structures, and the interface displays a two-dimensional structure. [1] In a suvorexant test, the tool's five highest-ranked targets were similar to those from the original implementation, but the lists did not match exactly. [1] The author suggested that differences in dataset versions and parameters may explain the results. The tool uses ChEMBL 37, while the original site uses ChEMBL 36. [1] The author plans to refine the code and test it with other ligands. [1] ## Turner builds personal and lab websites with lightweight tools Stephen Turner builds his personal website from Markdown files and a Makefile, then deploys it through a private GitHub repository and Netlify. [2] He said the site is about 100 KB and that its domain costs $8 a year. [2] Turner said he launched a lab website the previous week, using Make and Pandoc to generate its HTML. [2] The site is 5 KB and loads in about 300 milliseconds, he said. [2] Its publications page uses a BibTeX file and Pandoc Lua filters to format citations and emphasize lab members' names. [2] ## The day in numbers - **ChEMBL 37**: Dataset version used by the new target-prediction tool [1] - **5 KB**: Size of Turner's lab website, which loads in about 300 milliseconds [2] ## Sources 1. [Open Similarity Ensemble Approach (Open-SEA) #cheminformatics #rdkit](), Is life worth living?, 2026-11-08 2. [You Need a Personal Website](), Paired Ends, 2026-11-08 --- TheBench.Bio wrote this from the reporting cited above, with a language model drafting and editing. [1]: [2]: