chembank

is a Data Source.

ChemBank was a public, freely available collection of small-molecule screening data and cheminformatics resources developed by the Chemical Biology Program (formerly the Initiative for Chemical Genetics) at the Broad Institute. It assembled biological activity measurements from high-throughput screens together with chemical structures, compound annotations, and analysis tools, with the aim of helping researchers relate small molecules to their effects on biological systems. ChemBank is no longer maintained: its homepage at chembank.broadinstitute.org is defunct and now redirects away from the original database. It served as an upstream primary source for the Molecular Data Provider (MolePro) and the molecular-data-kp knowledge provider.

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Homepage

chembank

Repository

Unknown

Infores ID

infores:chembank

FAIRsharing ID

Unknown

Product Summary

Products

From this Resource
ID Name URL Category Format Description
chembank.wayback ChemBank homepage (Wayback Machine archive) chembank.broadinstitute.org DocumentationProduct http Archived snapshot of the former ChemB...
chembank.publication ChemBank NAR publication gkm843 DocumentationProduct http Primary publication describing ChemBa...
From other Resources
ID Name URL Category Format Relation Description
molecular-data-kp.graph.nodes Nodes for Molecular Data KP nodes.tsv (3.4 GB) GraphProduct kgx had primary source KGX nodes for Molecular Data KP
molecular-data-kp.graph.edges Edges for Molecular Data KP edges.tsv (18.8 GB) GraphProduct kgx had primary source KGX edges for Molecular Data KP

Details

ChemBank

ChemBank was a public, free small-molecule screening and cheminformatics resource database produced by the Chemical Biology Program (originally the Initiative for Chemical Genetics) at the Broad Institute. It collected raw and processed data from high-throughput biological screens, chemical structures, and compound annotations, and paired them with analysis and search tools so that investigators could explore relationships between small molecules and biological activity.

The resource is now defunct. The original homepage at chembank.broadinstitute.org no longer serves the database and redirects to an unrelated Broad Institute page, so for this reason the resource is recorded with activity_status: inactive. A historical snapshot of the homepage is preserved in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, and the original Nucleic Acids Research publication remains the canonical description of the resource.

In KG-Registry, ChemBank is retained as a historical primary source. It served upstream of the Molecular Data Provider (MolePro) / molecular-data-kp, which transformed and integrated ChemBank content for downstream knowledge-graph use.

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Created: June 18, 2026 | Last modified: June 27, 2026