PubChem (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) is a public chemical data repository that provides information on various chemical entities, including small molecules, siRNA, miRNA, peptides, lipids, carbohydrates, chemically modified biologics, etc. One of the most commonly requested tasks in PubChem is to search for a compound by chemical name (also commonly called “chemical synonym”). PubChem performs this task by looking up chemical synonym-structure associations provided by individual depositors to PubChem. These name-structure associations are used to create links between chemicals and Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms, which in turn are used to generate associations between chemicals and PubMed articles. The accuracy of these depositor-provided synonym-structure associations is dependent upon two important quality control methods used in PubChem: (1) chemical structure standardization and (2) synonym filtering based on crowd voting. In this presentation, we will discuss the two quality control methods and their effects on the chemical synonym-structure associations.

Chemical structure standardization and synonym filtering in PubChem

2019 Fall National Meeting

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