DrugBank


The DrugBank database is a comprehensive, freely accessible, online database containing information on drugs and drug targets. As both a bioinformatics and a cheminformatics resource, DrugBank combines detailed drug data with comprehensive drug target information. DrugBank has used content from Wikipedia. Wikipedia also often links to Drugbank.
The latest release of the database contains 9591 drug entries including 2037 FDA-approved small molecule drugs, 241 FDA-approved biotech drugs, 96 nutraceuticals and over 6000 experimental drugs. Additionally, 4270 non-redundant protein sequences are linked to these drug entries. Each DrugCard entry contains more than 200 data fields with half of the information being devoted to drug/chemical data and the other half devoted to drug target or protein data.
Four additional databases, HMDB, T3DB, SMPDB and FooDB are also part of a general suite of metabolomic/cheminformatic databases. HMDB contains equivalent information on more than 40,000 human metabolites, T3DB contains information on 3100 common toxins and environmental pollutants, SMPDB contains pathway diagrams for nearly 700 human metabolic pathways and disease pathways, while FooDB contains equivalent information on ~28,000 food components and food additives.

Version history

The first version of DrugBank was released in 2006. This early release contained relatively modest information about 841 FDA-approved small molecule drugs and 113 biotech drugs. It also included information on 2133 drug targets. The second version of DrugBank was released in 2009. This greatly expanded and improved version of the database included 1344 approved small molecule drugs and 123 biotech drugs as well as 3037 unique drug targets. Version 2.0 also included, for the first time, withdrawn drugs and illicit drugs, extensive food-drug and drug-drug interactions as well as ADMET parameters. Version 3.0 was released in 2011. This version contained 1424 approved small molecule drugs and 132 biotech drugs as well as >4000 unique drug targets. Version 3.0 also included drug transporter data, drug pathway data, drug pricing, patent and manufacturing data as well as data on >5000 experimental drugs. Version 4.0 was released in 2014. This version included 1558 FDA-approved small molecule drugs, 155 biotech drugs and 4200 unique drug targets. Version 4.0 also incorporated extensive information on drug metabolites, drug taxonomy, drug spectra, drug binding constants and drug synthesis information. Table 1 provides a more complete statistical summary of the history of DrugBank’s development.
Category1.02.03.04.0
No. of data fields per DrugCard88108148208
No. of search types8121618
No. of illustrated drug-action pathways 00168232
No. of drugs with metabolizing enzyme data 007621037
No. of drug metabolites with structures0001239
No. of drug-metabolism reactions0001308
No. of illustrated drug metabolism pathways00053
No. of drugs with drug transporter data00516623
No. of drugs with taxonomic classification information0006713
No. of SNP-associated drug effects00113201
No. of drugs with patent/pricing/manufacturer data0012081450
No. of food–drug interactions071410391180
No. of drug–drug interactions0
No. of ADMET parameters 02768906667
No. of QSAR parameters per drug561423
No. of drugs with drug-target binding constant data000791
No. of drugs with NMR spectra000306
No. of drugs with MS spectra000384
No. of drugs with chemical synthesis information038381285
No. of FDA-approved small molecule drugs841134414241558
No. of biotech drugs113123132155
No. of nutraceutical drugs61698287
No. of withdrawn drugs0576878
No. of illicit drugs0188189190
No. of experimental drugs2894311652106009
Total No. of experimental and FDA small molecule drugs3796477466847561
Total No. of experimental and FDA drugs 3909489768167713
No. of all drug targets 2133303743264115
No. of approved-drug enzymes/carriers 00164245
No. of all drug enzymes/carriers 00169253
No. of external database links12183133

Scope and access

All data in DrugBank is non-proprietary or is derived from a non-proprietary source. It is freely accessible and available to anyone. In addition, nearly every data item is fully traceable and explicitly referenced to the original source. DrugBank data is available through a public web interface and downloads.
Users may query DrugBank in a number of ways:
Users may download selected text components and sequence data from DrugBank and track the latest news about DrugBank through regular news feeds through its website as well as through Twitter and Facebook.