PubChemSR: A search and retrieval tool for PubChem

Recent years have seen an explosion in the amount of publicly available chemical and related biological information. A significant step has been the emergence of PubChem, which contains property information for millions of chemical structures, and acts as a repository of compounds and bioassay screening data for the NIH Roadmap.

There is a strong need for tools designed for scientists that permit easy download and use of these data. We present one such tool, PubChemSR.

ImplementationPubChemSR (Search and Retrieve) is a freely available desktop application written for Windows using Microsoft .NET that is designed to assist scientists in search, retrieval and organization of chemical and biological data from the PubChem database. It employs SOAP web services made available by NCBI for extraction of information from PubChem.Results and Discussion: The program supports a wide range of searching techniques, including queries based on assay or compound keywords and chemical substructures.

Results can be examined individually or downloaded and exported in batch for use in other programs such as Microsoft Excel. We believe that PubChemSR makes it straightforward for researchers to utilize the chemical, biological and screening data available in PubChem.

We present several examples of how it can be used.

Author: David J Wild and Junguk Hur
Credits/Source: Chemistry Central Journal 2008, 2:11

Published on: 2008-05-15

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