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Full Drug Structures in SDF Format Drug group Released on Version Size Command Download (SDF ) All 2022-01-04 5.1.9 9.11 MB Example
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Structure External Links New! 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.
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Full Metabolite Structures in SDF Format New! Released on Version Size Command Download (SDF ) 2022-01-04 5.1.9 1.4 MB Example
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External Drug Links Drug group Released on Version Size Command Download (CSV) All 2022-01-04 5.1.9 545 KB Example
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Protein identifiers include external IDs to resources such as UniProt and PDB.These downloads are divided first by protein/compound type (target, transporter, etc.). Secondly they are divided by drug group (approved, illicit, etc.). Each archive contains 2 files: one for all target/enzyme/transporter/carriers and one with only those marked as pharmacologically active (directly related to the mechanism of action for at least one of the associated drugs). Note that each row in the export CSV file also includes a concatenated list of DrugBank drugs IDs (semi-colon delimited) as the last column. These DrugBank datasets are released under a Creative Common's Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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These DrugBank datasets are released under a Creative Common's Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Drug group Released on Version Size Command Download All 2022-01-04 5.1.9 4.38 MB Example
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The DrugBank Open Data datasets are public domain datasets that can be used freely in your application or project (including commercial use). It is released under a Creative Common's CC0 International License . To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with the DrugBank Open Data has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the DrugBank Open Data. This work is published from: Canada.
Dataset Description Released on Version Size Format Command Download DrugBank Vocabulary DrugBank identifiers, names, and synonyms to permit easy linking and integration into any type of project. 2022-01-03 5.1.9 777 KB CSV Example
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