BindingDB in 2015: A public database for medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry and systems pharmacology

BindingDB, www.bindingdb.org, is a publicly accessible database of experimental protein-small molecule interaction data. Its collection of over a million data entries derives primarily from scientific articles and, increasingly, US patents. BindingDB provides many ways to browse and search for data of interest, including an advanced search tool, which can cross searches of multiple query types, including text, chemical structure, protein sequence and numerical affinities. The PDB and PubMed provide links to data in BindingDB, and vice versa; and BindingDB provides links to pathway information, the ZINC catalog of available compounds, and other resources. The BindingDB website offers specialized tools that take advantage of its large data collection, including ones to generate hypotheses for the protein targets bound by a bioactive compound, and for the compounds bound by a new protein of known sequence; and virtual compound screening by maximal chemical similarity, binary kernel dis...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Michael K. Gilson, Tiqing Liu, Michael Baitaluk, George Nicola, Linda Hwang, Jenny Chong
• Keywords: NAR 2016