DrugBank Release Notes

Version 5.1.22 — Released June 27, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.21 — Released June 02, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.20 — Released May 06, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.19 — Released April 23, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.18 — Released April 20, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.17 — Released April 10, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.16 — Released April 07, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.15 — Released March 05, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.14 — Released January 04, 2026

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.13 — Released January 02, 2025

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.12 — Released March 14, 2024

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.11 — Released January 03, 2024

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.10 — Released January 04, 2023

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.9 — Released January 03, 2022

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.8 — Released January 03, 2021

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.7 — Released July 02, 2020

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.6 — Released April 23, 2020

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.5 — Released January 03, 2020

No significant changes.

This export was originally created on Jan 1 2020, and contained invalid XML in the complete database XML file. This issue was corrected on Jan 3.

Version 5.1.4 — Released July 02, 2019

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.3 — Released April 02, 2019

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.2 — Released December 20, 2018

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.1 — Released July 03, 2018

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.0 — Released April 02, 2018

This release includes a change to the XML data and schema:

  • The DrugBank accession number for salts (now termed product ingredients) can now point to a drug (active moiety) entry.
  • Drug products from the EMA (European Medical Association) are now included in the export.
Version 5.0.11 — Released December 20, 2017

Some of the structures in the previous release were invalid, this has been corrected in 5.0.11.

Version 5.0.10 — Released November 14, 2017

This release includes a new dataset, Structure External Links. The structure external links datasets are CSV files which include structure information in the form of InChI/InChI Key/SMILES as well as identifiers for other drug-structure resources (such as ChEBI, ChEMBL, etc.). Included in each dataset is also the PubChem Compound ID (CID) and the particular PubChem Substance ID (SID) for the given DrugBank record.

This release also includes an update to the PubChem SIDs based on the latest deposition.

Archived Release Notes (pre version 4.5)