---
id: "chembl_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["chemistry", "medical"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/chembl_id"
---

# ChEMBL ID (`chembl_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a compound, target, assay or document in ChEMBL, the EMBL-EBI database of bioactive molecules: CHEMBL and a number.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Chemistry (chemistry), Medical/pharma identifiers (medical)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^CHEMBL\d+$
```

## Examples

- `CHEMBL417016` — β-lactose
- `CHEMBL1200604` — tropicamide
- `CHEMBL113` — caffeine

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `chembl`
- wikidata: `P592`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChEMBL>
- doc: <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P592>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/chembl_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/chemistry/chembl_id.yaml>