Databases overview
Search ChEMBL bioactivity, PubChem, ZINC, UniProt, PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov — the fastest first step before you run a model.
Most questions start by looking something up: a bioactive compound, a purchasable analog, a protein annotation, a paper. This section searches curated chemical, biological, clinical, and literature databases — the fastest, cheapest first step before you run a model. You run a lookup by asking Ivy in chat; there is no job to track and no form to fill in.
Availability
These tools are metered by credits and gated by your plan — plans set your monthly credits, available model families, and which modal-app tools you can run. See Plans & tiers.
What you can achieve here
- Find bioactive compounds on a target
- Find purchasable / in-stock compounds
- Look up protein sequences and annotations
- Search literature and clinical trials
For which tool fits each, see What you can achieve.
Tools in this section
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| ChEMBL on the platform | Search Europe's largest open bioactivity database for compounds, targets, and assay data. |
| PubChem search | Look up PubChem by CID, name or structure, pull properties, run Tanimoto similarity and substructure queries, and export CSV or SDF inside PUG REST… |
| PubMed Search on the platform | Search PubMed/MEDLINE for biomedical literature using natural language or Boolean queries. |
| UniProt Search on the platform | Search the UniProt protein database for sequences, annotations, GO terms, and cross-references. |
| ZINC Database | Query, filter, and download ZINC compounds through the platform workflows. |
| Clinical Trials Search on the platform | Search ClinicalTrials.gov for active and completed trials by condition, intervention, phase, and status. |
Recipes using these tools
Search Compounds
Search Compounds: a data recipe chaining pubchem, chembl.
Hit to lead
Dock a hit against a target, rescore the pose, screen ADMET, plan a synthesis route, and check vendor availability — the hit-to-lead pass.
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What you can achieve
The outcomes these tools deliver — and which to pick when several do the same thing.
Which tool?
Match a scientific goal to a tool across every domain.
Concept clusters
How tools, jobs, and results fit together.
Workflows
Guided pipelines and copy-and-adapt prompt recipes for common goals.
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