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

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

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

• 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.

Has Part

drugbank.category drugbank.salt drugbankv4.target

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 11 mappings to external registries for drugbank with 6 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 drugbank. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.