We know that one of the challenges in medical research is the scarcity of real-world data available to academic researchers and other interested parties to develop new and improved drugs.Data sharing does happen in the pharmaceutical industry,but it is not yet standard practice and remains the preserve of special projects.One such example is the ChEMBL database.Hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute(EMBL-EBI),ChEMBL is a vast online database containing bioactivity data on more than 1.6 million drugs and drug-like small molecules and their targets.Originally developed as a private resource by a biotechnology firm,it was acquired by EMBL in 2008 and has become a valued public resource for virtual screening,drug design and product development.
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