TY - JOUR TI - ZINC: A Free Tool to Discover Chemistry for Biology AU - John J. Irwin AU - Teague Sterling AU - Michael M. Mysinger AU - Erin S. D. Bolstad AU - Ryan G. Coleman PY - 2012 JO - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling DO - 10.1021/ci3001277 UR - https://doi.org/10.1021/ci3001277 AB - ZINC is a free public resource for ligand discovery. The database contains over twenty million commercially available molecules in biologically relevant representations that may be downloaded in popular ready-to-dock formats and subsets. The Web site also enables searches by structure, biological activity, physical property, vendor, catalog number, name, and CAS number. Small custom subsets may be created, edited, shared, docked, downloaded, and conveyed to a vendor for purchase. The database is maintained and curated for a high purchasing success rate and is freely available at zinc.docking.org. ER -