The first public molecular recognition database, BindingDB supports research, education and practice in drug discovery, pharmacology and related fields.

BindingDB contains 2.9M data for 1.2M Compounds and 9.3K Targets. Of those, 1,352K data for 627K Compounds and 4.5K Targets were curated by BindingDB curators. BindingDB is a FAIRsharing resource.

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Data curated by BindingDB are made available subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License, so long as BindingDB is cited. Data in BindingDB from ChEMBL are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License, which, in addition to citation of ChEMBL, also requires that any collection or product based on ChEMBL data be redistributed under the same Share Alike license. You agree to cite BindingDB and ChEMBL as required; please use the following citation for BindingDB:

  • BindingDB in 2015: A public database for medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry and systems pharmacology. M.K. Gilson, T. Liu, M. Baitaluk, G. Nicola, L. Hwang and J. Chong Nucleic Acids Research 44:D0145-D1053, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv1072

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