An ontology to support comparative effectiveness researchers studying claims data.

Prefix

dron

Preferred Prefix

DRON

Keywords

approved drug biomedical science drug obo ontology small molecule

Version

2025-11-20

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Publications

2017 Therapeutic indications and other use-case-driven updates in the drug ontology: anti-malarials, anti-hypertensives, opioid analgesics, and a large term request

2016 An accurate and precise representation of drug ingredients

2013 Building a drug ontology based on RxNorm and other sources

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in The Drug Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

00023232   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from The Drug Ontology should match this regular expression:
^DRON:\d{8}$

Example CURIE

DRON:00023232

Pattern for RDF URIs

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DRON_$1

Example RDF URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DRON_00023232

Contact

William Hogan   0000-0002-9881-1017   hoganwr

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

Appears In (1) (bioregistry.schema:0000018 )

SCDO

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 00023232 is used to demonstrate the providers available for The Drug Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.