This gives you direct access to ChEMBL's 2+ million bioactive compounds and 19 million activity measurements through Python. You can search by molecular structure, filter by properties like IC50 or Ki values, find inhibitors for specific targets, and pull drug mechanism data. It's built on the chembl_webresource_client and supports Django-style filters for complex queries. Really useful if you're doing medicinal chemistry work, SAR studies, or drug repurposing research and need to quickly grab compound-target interaction data without writing your own EBI API wrapper. The caching is sensible and it handles pagination automatically, so you can iterate through large result sets without thinking about it.

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$ npx -y skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill chembl-database --agent claude-code

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ChEMBL Database

Overview

ChEMBL is a manually curated database of bioactive molecules maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), containing over 2 million compounds, 19 million bioactivity measurements, 13,000+ drug targets, and data on approved drugs and clinical candidates. Access and query this data programmatically using the ChEMBL Python client for drug discovery and medicinal chemistry research.

When to Use This Skill

This skill should be used when:

  • Compound searches: Finding molecules by name, structure, or properties
  • Target information: Retrieving data about proteins, enzymes, or biological targets
  • Bioactivity data: Querying IC50, Ki, EC50, or other activity measurements
  • Drug information: Looking up approved drugs, mechanisms, or indications
  • Structure searches: Performing similarity or substructure searches
  • Cheminformatics: Analyzing molecular properties and drug-likeness
  • Target-ligand relationships: Exploring compound-target interactions
  • Drug discovery: Identifying inhibitors, agonists, or bioactive molecules

Installation and Setup

Python Client

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Repository
github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates
Categories
Backend & APIs, Data Science & ML, Sales & Marketing, Databases
First seen
Jun 3, 2026

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