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PubChem in 2021: new data content and improved web interfaces

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Kim, Sunghwan, Chen, Jie, Cheng, Tiejun, Gindulyte, Asta, He, Jia, He, Siqian, Li, Qingliang, Shoemaker, Benjamin A +5 more·2021·Nucleic Acids Research

Abstract

PubChem (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) is a popular chemical information resource that serves the scientific community as well as the general public, with millions of unique users per month. In the past two years, PubChem made substantial improvements. Data from more than 100 new data sources were added to PubChem, including chemical-literature links from Thieme Chemistry, chemical and physical property links from SpringerMaterials, and patent links from the World Intellectual Properties Organization (WIPO). PubChem's homepage and individual record pages were updated to help users find desired information faster. This update involved a data model change for the data objects used by these pages as well as by programmatic users. Several new services were introduced, including the PubChem Periodic Table and Element pages, Pathway pages, and Knowledge panels. Additionally, in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, PubChem created a special data collection that contains PubChem data related to COVID-19 and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

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  • More than 85% (234 drugs) of newly added drugs have external identifiers in PubChem, WHO INN, DrugBank, ChEMBLdb, KEGG, UNII, UMLS, etc.

    “More than 85% (234 drugs) of the newly added drugs have external identifiers in PubChem (25), World Health Organization (WHO) International Nonproprietary Names (INN), DrugBank (26), ChEMBLdb (27), KEGG (28), FDA’s Global Substance Registration System—Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII; https://bit.ly/3MNMqwQ), Unified Medical Language System, UMLS (29), etc. (Table 1).”

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Kim, S., Chen, J., Cheng, T., Gindulyte, A., He, J., He, S., Li, Q., Shoemaker, B. A., Thiessen, P. A., Yu, B., Zaslavsky, L., Zhang, J., & Bolton, E. E.
Affiliations
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA
Corresponding author
Bolton, Evan E
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2020-11-05
Volume
49
Issue
D1
Pages
D1388-D1395
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W3097145107
Cited by
3,953
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 442 · 2025: 588 · 2024: 638 · 2023: 963 · 2022: 913 · 2021: 402 · 2020: 3
FWCI
546.13
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
public-domain
Locations
  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, public-domain)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Keywords
PubChem, chemical information resources, chemical property data, patent information, reaction pathways, COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2
MeSH terms
COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Humans, Public Health, Software, User-Computer Interface, Information Storage and Retrieval, Internet, Drug Discovery, Epidemics, Databases, Chemical

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