By Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC)
The CSIC Chemical Library is an initiative launched in 2021 following the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Distributed across three CSIC institutes (IQAC, IIQ, and IQM), its primary objective is to foster scientific collaboration between diverse research groups while streamlining the discovery of molecules with new biological and/or therapeutic activities. To carry out this task, the Chemical Library staff collects, organizes, and classifies molecules synthesized by researchers at these centers, making them available to be sent and tested in biological assays conducted at other CSIC institutes across the country. At the IQAC level, an HPLC-MS system is available for the qualitative analysis of deposited compounds, as well as a robotic pipetting platform used when preparing shipments for testing. Currently, the CSIC Chemical Library collection has more than 3,000 registered compounds.
