DrugBank - drugbank

Grade
The grade for the resource as automatically determined by the criteria violations.
4
Description
A full description of the resource from the resource itself, if possible.
The DrugBank database is a unique bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug data with comprehensive drug target information.
Last curated
(Optional) The ISO 8601 date of when the resource was last curated.
2023-09-24
Location
URL for the resource.
https://go.drugbank.com
Source type
(Optional) How the resource relates to the data it contains. Current allowable entries are: "unknown", "repository", "source", "integrator", and "warehouse".
source
Curation status
Whether or not annotation is complete on this resource. Current allowable entries are: "complete", "incomplete", and "nonpublic".
complete
Field
The area of research for the resource.
pharmacology
Type
The type of data the resource contains.
drug
Categories
(Optional) Tags to describe the resource and its data.
bioinformatics
cheminformatics
drugs
drug-protein interactions
targets
pathways
Access
(Optional) Links to the resource's data.
download
License
The license that is used by the resource. We use SPDX where we can or: "inconsistent", "public domain", "unlicensed", "all rights reserved", or "custom".
CC-BY-NC-4.0
License type
The type of license that is being used. This will be to define compatible data pools in the future; we only use the grossest terms now. If it is not known "unknown" is used. Current possible values are: "unknown", "unlicensed", "copyleft", "permissive", "public domain", "copyright", "restrictive", or "private pool".
restrictive
License location
(Optional) The link to the resource license.
https://www.drugbank.ca/releases/latest
Focused curation
(Optional) Setting this flag to true indicates that the licensing was combinatorially complicated enough (as is the case in some commercial licenses) that the curator chose to wear a single "hat" during the process. From the site text: "While we try to cover as much of the licensing possibilities of a data resource that we can, in a few cases we may choose a particular "hat" to wear while evaluating to prevent a combinatorial explosion, which may also reduce the clarity of our curations for the community. In these cases, we may take on the role of a (1) non-commercial (2) academic (3) group that is (4) based in the US and trying to (5) create an aggregating resource, noting that other entities may have different results in the license commentary."
false
Issues
(Optional) Structured issues with the license. For every issue discovered with a resource, there should be a corresponding item in the license-issues field that marks the /exact/ violation, along with any comments. This field can be used by resources as the first step to improvement, as well as clarify any surrounding circumstances. Any issues or thoughts about a resource that do not slot into one of the criteria violations can go into the license-commentary field.
Criteria D.1.1: The NC license allows for liberal non-commercial reuse.
Criteria E.1.1: The NC license allows for non-commercial reuse with other non-commercial interests.
Commentary
(Optional) Further commentary on the license, possibly including the though process of the curations and things like locations of additional licenses.
• There is also an open (CC0) data subset for vocabulary and structures that could be evaluated separately; it is ~5mb vs ~150mb for the complete "academic" set(about 3%).
• This seems to be mostly a standard NC/commercial licensing split, with DrugBank+ supporting commerical licensing for fees.
• To download the full academic set, one must create an account (https://go.drugbank.com/public_users/sign_up), which is a multi-step and human mediated process, with varying turnaround times and follow-up questions.
Controversial
(Optional) Marker noting that there was some extended internal discussion or controversy about the evaluation of the licensing terms. If this is marked at "true", the controversy, or a link to a permanent archive of the controversy, must be sufficiently contained in the "license-commentary" to reconstruct the issues.
false
Contacts
(Optional) Resource contact information, link, email, or whatever is public.
https://go.drugbank.com/contact
info@drugbank.com
Grants
(Optional) Semi-structured list of supporting grants.
TBD

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