We built this ontology primarily to support comparative effectiveness researchers studying claims data. They need to be able to query U.S. National Drug Codes (NDCs) by ingredient, mechanism of action (beta-adrenergic blockade), physiological effect (diuresis), and therapeutic intent (anti-hypertensive).

Prefix

dron

Preferred Prefix

DRON

Keywords

approved drug biomedical science drug obo ontology small molecule

Version

2024-03-03

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

William Hogan   0000-0002-9881-1017   hoganwr

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

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

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 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 2 unique external prefixes.

When using this resource in RDF, the following URI format should be used:

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

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. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.