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ArticleJournal of computer-aided molecular design2015

Activity, assay and target data curation and quality in the ChEMBL database.

George Papadatos, Anna Gaulton, Anne Hersey, John P Overington

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Article in Journal of computer-aided molecular design, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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4 authors.

George PapadatosEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK.
Anna GaultonEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK.
Anne HerseyEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK.
John P OveringtonEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK. jpo@ebi.ac.uk.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 104104Wellcome Trust WT086151/Z/08/ZWellcome Trust WT104104/Z/14/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of a number of publicly available bioactivity databases, such as ChEMBL, PubChem BioAssay and BindingDB, has raised awareness about the topics of data curation, quality and integrity. Here we provide an overview and discussion of the current and future approaches to activity, assay and target data curation of the ChEMBL database. This curation process involves several manual and automated steps and aims to: (1) maximise data accessibility and comparability; (2) improve data integrity and flag outliers, ambiguities and potential errors; and (3) add further curated annotations and mappings thus increasing the usefulness and accuracy of the ChEMBL data for all users and modellers in particular. Issues related to activity, assay and target data curation and integrity along with their potential impact for users of the data are discussed, alongside robust selection and filter strategies in order to avoid or minimise these, depending on the desired application.

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Biological AssayData AccuracyDatabases, ChemicalDatabases, FactualData CurationInhibitory Concentration 50Data curationData qualityPublic bioactivity databases

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PMID26201396
PMCPMC4607714

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