SureChEMBL: open patent data for all

SureChEMBL is a large-scale, fully automated, chemical-structure-enabled database providing the research community with open, free and FAIR access to the patent literature. SureChEMBL contains ~140 million patents with ~50,000 added monthly. Of these, ~50 million patents are chemically annotated with more than 20 million unique chemical structures.

Around 80,000 new compounds are extracted and stored monthly.

The data in SureChEMBL can currently be accessed via a web interface that enables users to perform text and chemical structure queries, filter the output and then display the results. The complete set of chemical structures and patent associations are also available for download.

In this proposal we plan to significantly enhance SureChEMBL, enabling a wider selection of questions and use cases to be addressed, by: expanding annotations to include biological entities; developing methods to assess the relevance of information identified in patents and enable more accurate data retrieval and analysis; significantly improving the technical infrastructure and web interface with enhanced stability and usability; providing programmatic access through development of a RESTful application programming interface (API).

The new, upgraded SureChEMBL will provide the broader life sciences research community with unparalleled access to a large and rich source of information and knowledge.