title: cBinderDB: a covalent binding agent database.
abstract: Small molecule drug candidates with attractive toxicity profiles that modulate target proteins through non-covalent interactions are usually favored by scientists and pharmaceutical industry. In the past decades, many non-covalent binding agents have been developed for different diseases. However, an increasing attention has been paid to covalent binding agents in pharmaceutical fields during recent years. Many covalent binding agents entered clinical trials and exerted significant advantages for diseases such as infection, cancers, gastrointestinal disorders, central nervous system or cardiovascular diseases. It has been recognized that covalent binding ligands can be attractive drug candidates. But, there is lack of resource to support covalent ligand discovery.
  
  
  
  Hence, we initiated a covalent binder database (cBinderDB). To our best knowledge, it is the first online database that provides information on covalent binding compound structures, chemotypes, targets, covalent binding types and other biological properties. The covalent binding targets are annotated with biological functions, protein family and domains, gene information, modulators and receptor-ligand complex structure. The data in the database were collected from scientific publications by combining a text mining method and manual inspection processes. cBinderDB covers covalent binder's data up to September 2016.
  
  
  
  cBinderDB is freely available at www.rcdd.org.cn/cbinderdb/.
  
  
  
  guqiong@mail.sysu.edu.cn or junxu@biochemomes.com .
  
  
  
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
authors.forename: Jiewen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Zhihong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Xiaoqing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Xiuming
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Huihao
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D057225:Data Mining; D062313:Databases, Pharmaceutical; D055808:Drug Discovery; D008024:Ligands; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011506:Proteins