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_ID DrugBank

Keywords

biomedical science drug life science protein

Links

Homepage @DrugBankDB

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

• https://bioregistry.io/pubmed:29126136
• 2013 DrugBank 4.0: shedding new light on drug metabolism
• 2010 DrugBank 3.0: a comprehensive resource for 'omics' research on drugs
• 2007 DrugBank: a knowledgebase for drugs, drug actions and drug targets
• 2006 DrugBank: a comprehensive resource for in silico drug discovery and exploration

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

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.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE drugbank:DB14938 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.