MyChem.info documentation¶

Introduction¶

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MyChem.info provides simple-to-use REST web services to query/retrieve chemical and drug annotation data. It’s designed with an emphasis on simplicity and performance.

Quick start¶

MyChem.info provides two simple web services: one for querying chemical compound or drug objects and the other for chemical/drug annotation retrieval by common IDs (e.g. inchikey, chebiID, pubchem ID etc.). Both return results in JSON format.

Chemical/drug query service¶

URL¶

http://mychem.info/v1/query

Examples¶

http://mychem.info/v1/query?q=imatinib
http://mychem.info/v1/query?q=_exists_:chebi
http://mychem.info/v1/query?q=_exists_:drugcentral.bioactivity.uniprot.uniprot_id&fields=drugcentral.bioactivity.uniprot

Hint

View nicely formatted JSON result in your browser with this handy add-on: JSON formatter for Chrome or JSONView for Firefox.

To learn more¶

You can read the full description of our query syntax here.
Try it live on interactive API page.
Batch queries? Yes, you can. do it with a POST request.

Chemical/drug annotation service¶

URL¶

http://mychem.info/v1/chem/<chem_id>

<chem_id> can be any one of the following common chemical/drug identifiers:

InChIKey,

ChEMBLID,

ChEBI identifier,

PubChem CID,

UNII.

Examples¶

http://mychem.info/v1/chem/KTUFNOKKBVMGRW-UHFFFAOYSA-N
http://mychem.info/v1/chem/CHEBI:45783?fields=chebi
http://mychem.info/v1/chem/CHEMBL941?fields=chembl
http://mychem.info/v1/chem/BKJ8M8G5HI?fields=unii

To learn more¶

You can read the full description of our query syntax here.
Try it live on interactive API page.
Yes, batch queries via POST request as well.