ChEMBL is a database of bioactive compounds, their quantitative properties and bioactivities (binding constants, pharmacology and ADMET, etc). The data is abstracted and curated from the primary scientific literature.

Prefix
chembl
Alternative Prefixes
ChEMBL_ID ChEMBL chembl
Keywords
biochemistry drug discovery genomics medicinal chemistry molecules
Links
Homepage Repository @chembl
Contact
David Mendez Lopez   0000-0002-0294-5484   nclopezo
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in ChEMBL should match this regular expression:
^CHEMBL\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier
CHEMBL4303805   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from ChEMBL should match this regular expression:
^chembl:CHEMBL\d+$

Example CURIE
chembl:CHEMBL4303805
Publications
Ontology
Metaregistry ChEMBL

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for chembl with 5 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
CHEMINF cheminf 000412
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.m3jtpg
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam chembl
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons chembl
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100010539
UniProt UniProt Cross-ref database logo uniprot DB-0174
Providers

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE chembl:CHEMBL4303805 is used to demonstrate the provides available for chembl. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Name Metaprefix URI
ChEMBL chembl https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/entity/CHEMBL4303805
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/chembl:CHEMBL4303805
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/chembl:CHEMBL4303805
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.

Code Name URL
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/chembl:CHEMBL4303805