1. Introduction

   The mission of the Structural Genomics Consortium (“SGC”) Open Chemistry Networks platform (“Open Chem Networks”) is to bring together the knowledge, expertise, and resources of a large, distributed network of like-minded chemists from around the world to help SGC create new, open access Chemical Probes (defined below) against novel protein targets and to make them openly available to the research community without restrictions on use in order to catalyze research in new areas of human disease biology and drug discovery (the “

Who is involved in OCN?

This is an SGC initiative, and all SGC sites are contributing biochemistry and cell biology. There are synthetic chemistry contributors throughout the SGC, and the Head of Open Chemistry Networks is Professor Mat Todd at University College London.

What is open-source science?

SGC is a UK-registered charity that supports seven open science research sites worldwide. 

Current SGC Pharma Members provide funding and collaborate on scientific research without retaining intellectual property rights or advanced knowledge of outputs.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

The Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC) is strongly committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We strive to create an environment that welcomes individuals from all groups, countries, organizations and institutions in our research community. With the mission of creating global access to drug discovery through open science, SGC also endeavours to further the diversity of ideas and approaches in the workplace.

In this unique project, pharmaceutical companies and leading academic laboratories make their innovative high-quality chemical probes available to the research community through the SGC. These donated probes complement the probes generated by the SGC and its collaborators. All compounds accepted into the donated probes program meet the chemical probe quality criteria and have been evaluated by an internal as well as an external expert committee. Moreover, several probes are suitable for in vivo use. Control compounds are also provided and profiled. 

SGC chemical probes are open-access reagents that are meant to be used by the biomedical research community with no restrictions on use. SGC-developed probes are complemented by a growing set of donated high-quality chemical probes developed in industry and non-SGC laboratories. These are also available for unencumbered use.

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