ChEMBL

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General Information

ChEMBL is an open large-scale bioactivity database containing information largely manually extracted from the medicinal chemistry literature. Information regarding the compounds tested (including their structures), the biological or physicochemical assays performed on these and the targets of these assays are recorded in a structured form, allowing users to address a broad range of drug discovery questions.

Homepage https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl

Countries that developed this resource United Kingdom

Created in 2009

Taxonomic range

All

Knowledge Domains

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How to cite this record FAIRsharing.org: ChEMBL; ChEMBL; DOI: https://doi.org/10.25504/FAIRsharing.m3jtpg; Last edited: May 13, 2019, 3:07 p.m.; Last accessed: Jan 18 2020 8:14 p.m.

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			TeSS training|https://tess.elixir-europe.org/materials/chembl-exploring-bioactive-drug-like-molecules
			blog|http://chembl.blogspot.com
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			wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChEMBL
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			Browse ChEMBL-NTD
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			Access via EBI RDF
			myChEMBL Data Download (FTP)
			Browse ChEMBL-NTD
			Browse ChEMBL Malaria Subset
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			manual curation
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			web services
			file download (text,XLS,SDF exports)
			SQL database dump
			web-services (XML, JSON)
			search

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			REST|http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/178|Fetch assay
			REST|http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/179|Fetch assay bioactivities
			REST|http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/180|target record by RefSeq accession identifier
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			REST|http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/178|Fetch assay
			REST|http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/179|Fetch assay bioactivities
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			REST|https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/ws|ChEMBL Web Services
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	'supportLinks' has been modified:
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			TeSS training|https://tess.elixir-europe.org/materials/chembl-exploring-bioactive-drug-like-molecules
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			twitter|@chembl
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			ADME SARfari||https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/admesarfari
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			UniChem||https://www.ebi.ac.uk/unichem/
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			quarterly release
			manual curation
			access to historical files available
			web services
			file download (text,XLS,SDF exports)
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In Collections

Data Citation Implementation

ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases

Support

General

FAQ	ChEMBL FAQ
blog	ChEMBL Blog
online documentation	ChEMBL interface documentation
online documentation	Further Funding Information
twitter	@chembl
wikipedia	ChEMBL Wikipedia Entry

Additional Information

Contact

Andrew Leach ORCID

TeSS training resources

Chembl quick tour

Chembl walkthrough webinar

Chembl exploring bioactive drug like molecules

Tools

SureChEMBL	https://www.surechembl.org/search/
ChEMBL NTD	https://chembl.gitbook.io/chembl-ntd/
RDF Platform	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/rdf/
UniChem	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/unichem/

Access / Retrieve Data

Conditions of Use

Applies to: Data use

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Data Release

All Releases

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/downloads

Data Access

Access via EBI RDF	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/rdf/
myChEMBL Data Download (FTP)	ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/chembl/VM/myChEMBL/current/
Browse ChEMBL-NTD	https://chembl.gitbook.io/chembl-ntd/

REST Web Services

Compound record bioactivities	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/174
Compound Record	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/173
target record	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/175
target bioactivities	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/176
all targets	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/177
Fetch assay	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/178
Fetch assay bioactivities	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/179
target record by RefSeq accession identifier	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/180
ChEMBL Web Services	https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/ws
ChEMBLdb target record by UniProt accession identifier	http://www.biocatalogue.org/rest_methods/181

Publications

ChEMBL: a large-scale bioactivity database for drug discovery.

Gaulton A., Bellis LJ., Bento AP., Chambers J., Davies M., Hersey A., Light Y., McGlinchey S., Michalovich D., Al-Lazikani B., Overington JP.,
Nucleic Acids Res. 2012

View Paper (PubMed)

The ChEMBL bioactivity database: an update

Bento AP, Gaulton A, Hersey A, Bellis LJ, Chambers J, Davies M, Krüger FA, Light Y, Mak L, McGlinchey S, Nowotka M, Papadatos G, Santos R, Overington JP.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2013

View Paper (PubMed)

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Record Maintainer

This record is maintained by agaulton ORCID

Funds

NIH Common Fund, USA (Government body)
Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation, Cambridge, UK (Company)
EU-ToxRisk (Consortium)
Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), Brussles, Belgium (Consortium)
The CORBEL Project
Wellcome Trust, UK (Charitable foundation)
European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement (Government body)

Maintains

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK (Research institute) Lead

Grant Number(s)

115002 (Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), Brussles, Belgium)
602156 (European Commission under FP7 Grant Agreement)
654248 (The CORBEL Project)
681002 (EU-ToxRisk)
CTTV008 (Centre for Therapeutic Target Validation, Cambridge, UK)
U54CA189205 (NIH Common Fund, USA)
WT086151/Z/08/Z (Wellcome Trust, UK)

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