UniChem: a unified chemical structure cross-referencing and identifier tracking system.

ABSTRACT: UniChem is a freely available compound identifier mapping service on the internet, designed to optimize the efficiency with which structure-based hyperlinks may be built and maintained between chemistry-based resources. In the past, the creation and maintenance of such links at EMBL-EBI, where several chemistry-based resources exist, has required independent efforts by each of the separate teams. These efforts were complicated by the different data models, release schedules, and differing business rules for compound normalization and identifier nomenclature that exist across the organization. UniChem, a large-scale, non-redundant database of Standard InChIs with pointers between these structures and chemical identifiers from all the separate chemistry resources, was developed as a means of

SUBMITTER: Chambers J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3616875 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature