ZINC is a free database of commercially-available compounds for virtual screening. ZINC contains over 230 million purchasable compounds in ready-to-dock, 3D formats. ZINC is provided by the Shoichet Laboratory in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
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Contains over 230 million purchasable compounds for virtual screening.
Compounds are provided in 3D formats ready for docking studies.
ZINC is freely accessible to the scientific community.
Supports substructure searches to find compounds with specific molecular features.
Allows similarity searches to find compounds structurally similar to a query molecule.
Users can download data for offline analysis.
The database is regularly updated with new compounds and features.
Developed and maintained by the Shoichet Laboratory at UCSF.
Widely used by researchers in drug discovery and computational chemistry.
Accessible via web interface or programmatically through its API.
Users are encouraged to cite the ZINC database in their publications.
ZINC has a strong community of users and contributors who help improve the database.
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