ZINC:History

This is the history of the web interface to ZINC. The database itself - i.e. the collection of molecules - is continuously updated. For citation, we recommend giving the name of the subset, the date it was generated, and the date it was downloaded. For instance: ZINC lead-like, 3.7M molecules, generated on Dec 1, 2011 and downloaded on Dec 15, 2011. IF you downloaded an adhoc subset, we recommend you cite the search criteria, the date, and the number of molecules. Please cite our paper: Irwin and Shoichet, J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2005;45(1):177-82.

Current

• ZINC 12. Beta release Dec 1, 2011. Production Release Jan 1, 2012.

Past

• ZINC 11. April 2010. New Search interface with ChemAxon JChemBase/MySQL as the search engine.
• ZINC 10. Feb. 2010. Internal release. Moved to SVN. Minor restructuring.
• ZINC 9. Internal use only. Not publicly released.
• ZINC 8. June 18th, 2008. Last major release before we started using ChemAxon as the backend.
• ZINC 7. Jan 1, 2007. Incremental release, and looks much like ZINC 6.
• ZINC 6. Jan 1, 2006. Major release. All molecular geometries were re-created from scratch.
• ZINC 5. Jan 1, 2005. Major release. Coincided with the publication of the ZINC paper.
• ZINC 1-4. Early internal development versions prior to publication.

Future

• ZINC 13. Work began in January 2012. Beta version expected fall of 2012. If we are successful, it will be a major release with many new features.