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BioChemUDM: a unified data model for compounds and assays

  • Michael A. Kappler EMAIL logo , Christopher T. Lowden and J. Chris Culberson

Abstract

We present a simple, biochemistry data model (BioChemUDM) to represent compounds and assays for the purpose of capturing, reporting, and sharing data, both biological and chemical. We describe an approach to register a compound based solely on a stereo-enhanced sketch, thereby replacing the need for additional user-specified “flags” at the time of compound registration. We describe a convention for string-based labels that enables inter-organizational compound and assay data sharing. By co-adopting the BioChemUDM, we have successfully enabled same-day exchange and utilization of chemical and biological information with various stakeholders.


Corresponding author: Michael A. Kappler, IDEAYA Biosciences Inc, 7000 Shoreline Blvd Ste 350, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA, E-mail:

Article note: A collection of invited papers on Cheminformatics: Data and Standards.


Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Sandra Simon (IDEAYA Biosciences) and Jacob Spiegel (Workflow Informatics) for supporting the effort to launch the platform based on the BioChemUDM and assistance with writing this manuscript.

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The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2021-1004).


Published Online: 2022-06-16
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