Summary: The field of synthetic biology lacks a comprehensive knowledgebase for selecting synthetic target molecules according to their functions, economic applications and known biosynthetic pathways. We implemented ChemHub, a knowledgebase containing >90 000 chemicals and their functions, along with related biosynthesis information for these chemicals that was manually extracted from >600 000 published studies by more than 100 people over the past 10 years.
Availability and implementation: Multiple algorithms were implemented to enable biosynthetic pathway design and precursor discovery, which can support investigation of the biosynthetic potential of these functional chemicals. ChemHub is freely available at: http://www.rxnfinder.org/chemhub/.
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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