ZINC:Problems
Problems with individual molecular representations (e.g. broken molecules), questions about the interface, non catastrophic errors should be reported in our Support Forum. Emergencies (e.g. the site is down, no search will work) should be reported to Zinc Support.
This is the ZINC problems page, which describes all the problems specific to ZINC. Other problem pages are available: DOCK Blaster:Problems, DUD:Problems, DOCK:Problems, Problems.
Problem 1
In this paper
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968089609001114?np=y
It is sub nanomolar
http://zinc15.docking.org/genes/ADRA2B/observations/?zinc_id=ZINC000100006770
But the compound in ZINC (and likely ChEMBL) is not the right one
Have not yet written to ChEMBL
Problem 2 - Sept 2016
Incorrect imidazole with =C= traced back to PDB
Wrote to RCSB
They sent it along to EBI
Have not heard back
Problem 3 - Aug 2016
Wrote to biosynth vendor about an error
Not sure if we heard back
Deleted wrong molecule from ZINC
Problem 4 - next one
Non-exhaustive list of problems we are aware of
- Molecule duplication
- Incorrect representation
- Missing representation
- Missing catalog
- Missing molecule
- Out of date catalogs
broken molecules
C04476765 C05925570 C04914001 C00315585 C02483697 C05477751 C67328881 C21032807 C10809385 C00238298 C20580044 C10809385
- Probably incorrect enumeration/sampling of stereochemistry both R/S and E/Z
- incorrect treatment of protonation and tautomerization in some cases
- search way too slow
- problem with links to supplier web sites
- tutorials
- protocols
More details about problems we are aware of
- Unreasonable tautomers: We generate some tautomers that we shouldn't. Among the ones we know about is CH3-C=NH -> CH2=C-N.
- Aggressive protonation: We generate protonated forms that are probably unreasonable for most targets, such as protonated pyridines. This is an active area of research. Please be patient.
- Truncated Searches: Search results currently limited to 500 (anonymous) or 5000 (logged in). We are working towards a solution (expected Fall 2012).
- Duplication: We are aware of a thousands of duplicate molecules in ZINC. We continue to work on a robust solution to this problem.
- duplicates:
http://zinc.docking.org/substance/13952160 http://zinc.docking.org/substance/4798508
There are literally thousands of these. We regret this problem, and will fix it one day. For now, please try to ignore it.