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

bioactive entity biochemistry chemical compound chemical entity chemical structure chemical structure image chemistry databases drug drug discovery genome genomics interaction/pathway medicinal chemistry molecules protein repository small molecule tissue

License

CC-BY-SA-3.0

Links

Homepage

Publications

2023 The ChEMBL Database in 2023: a drug discovery platform spanning multiple bioactivity data types and time periods

https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:33507738

2019 ChEMBL: towards direct deposition of bioassay data

2016 The ChEMBL database in 2017

2015 ChEMBL web services: streamlining access to drug discovery data and utilities

2014 The EBI RDF platform: linked open data for the life sciences

2013 The ChEMBL bioactivity database: an update

2011 ChEMBL: a large-scale bioactivity database for drug discovery

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

Contact

David Mendez Lopez   0000-0002-0294-5484   nclopezo

Group Contact

Mailing List

Identifier Space Owner

European Bioinformatics Institute

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Has Parts (bfo:0000051 )

chembl.mechanism chembl.tissue

In Collection (2)

Global Biodata Coalition - Global Core Biodata Resources Synapse.org external links

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 7 mappings to external registries with 6 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier CHEMBL4303805 is used to demonstrate the providers available for ChEMBL. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.