SuperTarget, Matador, ChemSpider: When data curation becomes a hype

Although the first version of SuperTarget with all the search and discovery tools around drug-target relations is already an extensive resource for both large-scale research and in depth analysis, the captured knowledge is still far from complete and we would like to invite the community to help in increasing quality and quantity of the records. SuperTarget offers an option to upload and incorporate drug-target relations into a working queue. Uploaded entries will be reviewed and approved by an annotation team comprised of graduated scientists. Both SuperTarget and Matador can be used as knowledge sources, discovery tools or training sets for various applications in chemical biology and elsewhere. [DOI 10.1093/nar/gkm862]

Dear community, as already highlighted earlier is it a logical step that public data curation services like SuperTarget^, Matador, and ChemSpider become more popular. Lets see how far those services might go, but they should make things more efficient and help bringing light into the chaos. And yes, we are still living in a chaotic (data) world and every help counts.

For more access details for the databases contact the developers and authors. Here is some basic information.

SuperTarget and Matador are available via their web sites, http://insilico.charite.de/supertarget and http://matador.embl.de. They can be obtained via a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. [DOI 10.1093/nar/gkm862]

You have limited rights in this regard. You can only assemble a database of 5000 structures or less, and their associated properties, from our database without our permission. You can download up to 1000 structures per day from the website. Please contact us at feedbackATchemspiderDOTcom to request an extension outside this constraint. We are willing to provide the ENTIRE database of ChemSpider structures at your request - the file will consist of InChI Strings, InChIKeys and ChemSpider IDs. These constraints are under regular review so please feel free to engage us in conversation. [ChemSpider FAQ]

References

• Günther S, Kuhn M, Dunkel M, Campillos M, Senger C, Petsalaki E, Ahmed J, Urdiales EG, Gewiess A, Jensen LJ, Schneider R, Skoblo R, Russell RB, Bourne PE, Bork P, Preissner R.
  SuperTarget and Matador: resources for exploring drug-target relationships,
  Nucleic Acids Res., 2007, ASAP alert.
  DOI 10.1093/nar/gkm862
  PMID 17942422