So, where do we go from here? The good news is that GtoPdb, ChEMBL and BindingDB will continue their expert capture role. The bad news is that it looks like, even by 2020, no journal will yet have instigated a process to extract DARCP and pipe it directly into open databases. One can only surmise that there is neither sufficient publisher pull nor authorincentivised push to make this happen. An alternative solution would be for authors to independently facilitate the transfer of their own annotated DARCP data into, for example, PubChem BioAssay. While the key connectivity to a PMID (via Entrez) could be added later, the necessary database submissions (possibly even directly from an ELN) could, in principle, be de-coupled from the publishing process and thereby bypass PDF-entombment. Here again, we come up against the impasse of which stakeholders would value this high enough to instigate it.