Chemical structures transferred to public domain | Laboratory News

Patented chemical structures are to be transferred to the public domain, giving researchers access to a new source of highly relevant compounds related to curing human disease. SureChem – developed by Digital Science – extracts data from the full text and images of patents, making it easier to check whether a newly developed drug or product is actually novel. The system is being transferred to the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), marking the first time such a large collection of world patent chemistry structures – over 15 million – has been made publicly and freely available ... The new system – now named SureChEMBL – can be found at www.surechembl.org, and will open up data which was previously held in commercial systems and inaccessible to most researchers ..."