How ChEBI can help your research

When to use ChEBI

You can use ChEBI to:

• find the stereochemistry and structure of an entity by searching for any relevant name
• find the preferred chemical terminology for an entity by searching for any name, formula or registry numbers associated with it, including Chemical Abstract Service Registry Number (CAS-RN) and Reaxys numbers
• view the relationship between chemicals and their classes using the ChEBI ontology

When not to use ChEBI

ChEBI cannot help you:

• to find biological macromolecules, such as nucleic acids, proteins and large peptides;
• if you need a large set of molecules for molecular modelling, binding studies, etc; the ChEMBL database would be more appropriate

If the entity you are interested in is not listed in ChEBI:

• you can submit it to ChEBI yourself using the ChEBI Submission Tool
• you can ask the ChEBI team to add the entity to the database using ChEBI’s Github discussion forum