ChEMBL 36 is live
ChEMBL 36 release release brings the total number of drug targets to 17, 803 and provides access to 2.8 million distinct compounds.
The new ChEMBL 36 release is now live. ChEMBL is a manually curated database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. It brings together chemical, bioactivity and genomic data to aid the translation of genomic information into effective new drugs.
The new release brings the total number of drug targets to 17, 803 and provides access to 2.8 million distinct compounds.
Other highlights include:
- Chemical Probe data extracted from Biomedical Literature by using a combination of NLP-based and manual data extraction. Disease terms have been mapped to the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) and are made available in the assay_parameters table.
- By integrating new and updated BindingDB into ChEMBL, the team tripled the number of BindingDB sourced assays from patents (from 4,117 to 13,847) since the last release.
- Update of drug and clinical candidate drug information.
- The pesticide classification – which contains data for compounds that show resistance, such as insecticides, herbicides or fungicides – has been updated, and the relevant tables re-shaped.
