This conference provides a platform for the broad audience in the field of chemical biology to interact. The aim to provide the possibility for every chemical biologist to meet and discuss with peers, from tool development to biological applications, from computational drug design to synthetic chemistry.Over 300 participants can meet the 25 speakers and other top researchers whilst at the same time discussing their own data in three large poster sessions and 15 short talks selected from the participants.The past meetings were very successful in this respect, ensuring that the EMBL Conference on Chemical Biology remains the largest and broadest meeting in this field.