PUG-SOAP and PUG-REST: web services for programmatic access to chemical information in PubChem.

ABSTRACT: PubChem (http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) is a public repository for information on chemical substances and their biological activities, developed and maintained by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). PubChem contains more than 180 million depositor-provided chemical substance descriptions, 60 million unique chemical structures and 225 million bioactivity assay results, covering more than 9000 unique protein target sequences. As an information resource for the chemical biology research community, it routinely receives more than 1 million requests per day from an estimated more than 1 million unique users per month. Programmatic access to this vast amount of data is provided by several different systems, including the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)'s Entrez

SUBMITTER: Kim S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4489244 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature