Introduction

The ChEMBL Data Deposition Guide aims to assist depositors in correctly formatting data for submission to ChEMBL.

Developed by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, 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.

ChEMBL is a relational database; data is stored in tables which are linked by unique identifiers (primary and foreign keys, as discussed in the linked article). The ChEMBL schema can be accessed for more information about the structure of the public database.