PubChem is the National Library of Medicine’s open chemistry database and the largest freely accessible reference tool for chemical information. This 2 MLA CE online, self-paced course is for anyone interested in chemical information walks users through the major functions and features of PubChem with interactive exercises and quizzes. This self-paced tutorial guides you through how to access chemical property and structure data that hundreds of academic, government and industrial sources contribute to PubChem. It includes step-by-step directions for how to find chemical information using chemical names, identifiers, molecular formulas, gene symbols, proteins, pathways, taxonomies, and structures. It also shows you how to use the rich connections between PubChem and other resources (like PubMed) to explore chemical information further, and how to download chemistry data from PubChem.
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Open web version (no CE)
Locate information for a specific chemical in PubChem using an accepted identifier or structure
Search PubChem with a gene, protein, pathway, or taxonomy to find related chemical information
Identify the data source for chemical information in PubChem
Find links within PubChem to literature, clinical trials, and reference materials
Download data from PubChem