Molecule Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v1.26, by Herong Yang
ChEMBL Data Resource - assay
Provides a tutorial example on what are ChEMBL 'assay' data resources and how to access them with REST API.
"assay" is a primary data resource type provided by ChEMBL API. It represents a specific biological activity test.
1. Get a list of all assays.
herong$ curl https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/api/data/assay <response> <assays> <assay> <assay_category/> <assay_cell_type/> <assay_chembl_id>CHEMBL615117</assay_chembl_id> ... </assay> <assay> ... </assay> ... <assays> <page_meta> <limit>20</limit> <next>/chembl/api/data/assay?limit=20&offset=20</next> <offset/> <previous/> <total_count>1358549</total_count> </page_meta> </response>
2. Get the assay of a given id.
herong$ curl https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/api/data/assay/CHEMBL615117 <assay> <assay_category/> <assay_cell_type/> <assay_chembl_id>CHEMBL615117</assay_chembl_id> <assay_test_type/> <assay_tissue/> <assay_type>B</assay_type> <assay_type_description>Binding</assay_type_description> <cell_chembl_id/> <confidence_score>8</confidence_score> <description>The compound was tested for the in ...</description> <document_chembl_id>CHEMBL1125582</document_chembl_id> ... <target_chembl_id>CHEMBL2741</target_chembl_id> <tissue_chembl_id/> <variant_sequence/> </assay>
Foreign keys to other resources:
<target_chembl_id>CHEMBL1806</target_chembl_id> The biological testing target <document_chembl_id>CHEMBL1137930</document_chembl_id> The document where the test was published
Table of Contents
Molecule Names and Identifications
Nucleobase, Nucleoside, Nucleotide, DNA and RNA
►ChEMBL Database - European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Call ChEMBL Data Web Service Directly
ChEMBL Data Resource - molecule
ChEMBL Data Resource - activity
ChEMBL Data Resource - document
ChEMBL Data Resource - chembl_id_lookup
chembl_webresource_client - Python Client
chembl_webresource_client - Usage Examples
chembl_webresource_client - RetryError Exception
PubChem Database - National Library of Medicine
INSDC (International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration)
HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee)