The DrugBank database is a bioinformatics and chemoinformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information. This collection references drug information.

Prefix
drugbank
Alternative Prefixes
DrugBank DRUGBANK_ID
Keywords
biomedical science drug life science protein
Links
Homepage
Contact
David Wishart   0000-0002-3207-2434
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in DrugBank should match this regular expression:
^DB\d{5}$

Example Local Unique Identifier
DB14938   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from DrugBank should match this regular expression:
^drugbank:DB\d{5}$

Example CURIE
drugbank:DB14938
Publications
Ontology

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

Has Parts (bfo:0000051 )
drugbank.bioentity drugbank.category drugbank.salt
In Collection
ChEBI Data Sources
Metaregistry DrugBank

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 15 mappings to external registries for this resource with 10 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
BARTOC Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications logo bartoc 18377
BioContext biocontext DrugBank
Cellosaurus Cellosaurus Registry logo cellosaurus DrugBank
CHEMINF cheminf 000406
EDAM EDAM Ontology logo edam 2326
FAIRSharing FAIRSharing logo fairsharing FAIRsharing.353yat
Integbio Integbio logo integbio nbdc01071
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam drugbank
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t drugbank
Pathguide Pathguide logo pathguide 221
Prefix Commons Prefix Commons logo prefixcommons drugbank
re3data Registry of Research Data Repositories logo re3data r3d100010544
TogoID togoid Drugbank
UniProt UniProt Cross-ref database logo uniprot DB-0019
Wikidata Wikidata Property logo wikidata P715
Providers

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 DB14938 is used to demonstrate the providers available for DrugBank. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
DrugBank drugbank http://www.drugbank.ca/drugs/DB14938
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/drugbank:DB14938
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/drugbank:DB14938
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/drugbank:DB14938
Extra Providers

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.

Code Name URL
bio2rdf Bio2RDF http://bio2rdf.org/drugbank:DB14938