- What is PubChemSR?
- PubChemSR (Search andRetrieve) is a MS-Windows-based data search and retrieval tool for NCBI's chemical databases PubChem.
- PubChemSR is written in MS Visual Basic .Net and implemented by using Entrez
Eutilities via SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol).
- It's tested only on
Windows XP but it should work well on any other Windows platform with Microsoft .NET 2.0 installed.
- What are the main features?
- Various searches against any of the three PubChem databases
(PubChem Compound, PubChem Substance,and PubChem Bioassay)
- Simple text search
- Basic structure search
- BatchSearch with multiple query
- Data download
- Bulk-download with selected data fields
- BioAssay data retreiver - compounds/substances with bioactivity data
- Data display/export
- Export to MS Excel
- Two display options (DocSummary and Tab-delimited)
- Others
- Spelling correction for mis-spelled search terms
- Manual data field list update (PubChem occassionally changes availabe data fields)
- Link to PubChem Web page for searched results
- User-friendly GUI in Windows platform.
- License
- PubChemSR is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- PubChemSR is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with PubChemSR. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
- Please cite the author in any work or product based on this material.
- Author: Junguk Hur
- Bioinformatics Program
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Email: InformaticsTools@gmail.com