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ChEMBL connects chemical structures, their measured biological activity, and genomic information, helping researchers translate genomic findings into new drugs. New releases come out roughly every three to four months.

Unlike bulk databases, ChEMBL data is abstracted from the literature and curated by hand. That makes it smaller than automatically gathered collections but higher in confidence, which matters when the answers feed clinical or medicinal chemistry work.

ChEMBL is published under CC BY-SA 3.0. You can use it commercially and you must credit the source, but the share-alike term means any derivative database you distribute has to carry the same licence. Whether embeddings (numeric vectors derived from the text) count as a derivative under share-alike is genuinely unsettled, so factor that into your plans.

chemistrydrug-discoverybioactivitycuratedshare-alikegenomics

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