FAQ

Answers to the frequently asked questions

How to cite SureChEMBL?

If you mention SureChEMBL in your work, please cite:

Papadatos G, Davies M, Dedman N, Chambers J, Gaulton A, Siddle J, Koks R, Irvine SA, Pettersson J, Goncharoff N, Hersey A, Overington, JP. SureChEMBL: a large-scale, chemically annotated patent document database. Nucleic Acids Research, 2015;44(D1);D1220-D1228.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv1253 PMID: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/26582922

Can I search a compound by SCHEMBL_ID?

Yes. You can directly type your SCHEMBL_ID in the url. e.g. https://www.surechembl.org/chemical/2871 or https://www.surechembl.org/chemical/SCHEMBL2871

Can I search a compound by InChI key?

While there is not yet a possibility to search directly by InChI key in SureChEMBL, you can use UniChem to retrieve any SureChEMBL compound by InChI, InChI key or SCHEMBL_ID.

Search by InChI key in UniChem. If the compound is in SureChEMBL, it will appear in the result lit

Click on the corresponding link to see the compound in SureChEMBL

Can I download SureChEMBL to work offline?

Yes. The different ways of downloading SureChEMBL data are described in the downloads section.

What license covers SureChEMBL data?

The SureChEMBL data are made available under a highly permissive CC BY 4.0 licence.