ICM GUI Manual

[ Pocketome | ChEMBL | SureChEMBL | BLAST | UniProt | Ligand Code | Drug Bank | Search PubChem | Historeceptomics ]

Available in the following product(s): ICM-Browser | ICM-Browser-Pro | ICM-Pro | ICM-Chemist

The Search tab allows you to search and download content from the following databases:

Click on the search tab and then use the drop down menu to identify the database you would like to search and download from.

4.15.1 Search Pocketome

The Pocketome (www.pocketome.org) is an encyclopedia of conformational ensembles of all druggable binding sites that can be identified experimentally from co-crystal structures in the Protein Data Bank.

Step 1: Click on the search tab and choose the Pocketome option. Check a field you would like to search e.g. Protein Name, Family, domain...

Step 2: A table of pocketome hits will be displayed. Browse the results and double click to load a pocketome entry.

4.15.2 ChEMBL Search

ChEMBL (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl/) is a manually curated chemical database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. It is maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), based at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.

To search and download data from ChEMBL:

A table will be displayed as shown below.

The table contains the original activity data without merging or aggregation. For instance,
Chemical 1, Protein 1, Activity 1
Chemical 1, Protein 1, Activity 2
Chemical 1, Protein 2, Activity 1
Chemical 2, Protein 1, Activity 1

Click on the button Get Best Activity to display the best activity for each chemical, protein pair. For instance,

Chemical 1, Protein 1, Best(Activity 1, 2, 3, ...)
Chemical 1, Protein 2, Best(Activity 1, 2, 3, ...)
Chemical 2, Protein 1, Best(Activity 1, 2, 3, ...)

Click on the button Get Ligand Summary to display a list of chemicals with all activities found in ChEMBL. For instance,
Chemical 1, Protein 1, Activity 1

Protein 1, Activity 2
Protein 2, Activity 1
Protein 3, Activity 1

Chemical 2 Protein 1, Activity 1
Protein 2, Activity 1
Protein 2, Activity 2

4.15.3 Search SureChEMBL

SureChEMBL (https://www.surechembl.org/search/) provides free access to chemical data extracted from the patent literature. To search SureChEMBL:

4.15.4 BLAST Search

To BLAST search the NCBI sequence database:

Step 1: Load a sequence into ICM. Select the Search tab and choose the BLAST option. Drag and drop the sequence into the search field, use the drop down menu or type the sequence name.

Step 2: A fully interactive table and plot of sequence conservation will be displayed. Double click to load a sequence.

4.15.5 Search UniProt

Step 1: Click on the search tab and select Uniprot from the drop down menu. Enter the UniProt code. The sequence will be loaded directly into ICM and you will see it in the ICM workspace.

4.15.6 Search PDB by Ligand Code

To find structures containing a particular ligand in the PDB.

Step 1: Click on the search tab and select Ligand Code from the drop down menu. Enter the Ligand code and a table of hits will be displayed.

4.15.7 Search Drug Bank

To search Drug Bank ( http://www.drugbank.ca/)

Step 1: Click on the search tab and select Drug Bank from the drop down menu. Enter a search string and a table of results will be displayed.

The table contains the original activity data without merging or aggregation. For instance,
Chemical 1, Protein 1, Activity 1
Chemical 1, Protein 1, Activity 2
Chemical 1, Protein 2, Activity 1
Chemical 2, Protein 1, Activity 1

Click on the button Get Ligand Summary to display a list of chemicals with all activities found in Drug Bank. The button is located in the extra panel (click on hammer - top right of table panel). For instance,
Chemical 1, Protein 1, Activity 1

Protein 1, Activity 2
Protein 2, Activity 1
Protein 3, Activity 1

Chemical 2 Protein 1, Activity 1
Protein 2, Activity 1
Protein 2, Activity 2

4.15.8 Search PubChem

To search PubChem (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/):

  • Click on the search tab and select PubChem from the drop down menu.
  • Enter a search string and a table of results will be displayed or click on the chemical sketch button and sketch a substructure. When you close the chemical sketch window the smiles string will be added to the keyword search panel.
  • Click on the "binocular" button and run the search.
  • A table of hits will be displayed.

4.15.9 Historeceptomics

The historeceptomics (HR) platform is developed by GeneCentrix and reports tissue specific profiling for a drug molecule. It is a unique bioinformatics platform designed to identify mechanism of activity and predict unforeseen effects a chemical might have in the target tissue and off-target tissues.

HR integrates data from a variety of sources including:

You can search the historeceptomics platform in the Search tab in ICM.

After searching a results panel as shown below will be displayed.

The table is ranked by hr Score and reports the binding affinity gene name and tissue. The p-value represents the chance that the overabundance of the tissue/target in question could occur by random chance based on the variability of the expression of that target across 70 other tissues. Additional plots of gene frequency and hr score for each tissue are reported.