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September 23, 2011Nucleic Acids ResearchOpen Access

ChEMBL: a large-scale bioactivity database for drug discovery

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AGAnna GaultonSIB Swiss Institute of BioinformaticsLBLouisa J. BellisEuropean Bioinformatics InstituteABA. Patrícia BentoEuropean Bioinformatics Institute

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Database report demonstrates a curated open-access repository of millions of bioactive measurements across thousands of protein targets, highlighting critical infrastructure for drug discovery.

Key Points

  • To establish and maintain an open-access, curated database aggregating binding, functional, and ADMET bioactivity data to accelerate chemical biology and drug discovery research.
  • Manually extracted quantitative bioactivity data from primary peer-reviewed scientific literature.
  • Standardized chemical representations, target annotations, and experimental endpoints to optimize data quality and cross-study comparison.
  • Engineered open-access dissemination pipelines through web interfaces, downloadable flat files, and web services.
  • Aggregated 5.4 million bioactivity measurements spanning more than 1 million bioactive, drug-like compounds.
  • Mapped bioactivity endpoints across 5,200 distinct biological protein targets.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69955da0206d9796cebc4ec1https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr777
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