alterlab-drugbank
DrugBank Database
Overview
DrugBank is a comprehensive bioinformatics and cheminformatics database containing detailed information on drugs and drug targets. This skill enables programmatic access to DrugBank data: thousands of drug entries (FDA-approved small molecules, biotech/biologic drugs, nutraceuticals, and experimental compounds) with 200+ data fields per entry. Exact counts grow with each release — derive them from the version you download rather than quoting a fixed number (the 5.0-era figure was ~9,591 entries).
Access status (checked 2026-09-23). The current downloadable release is 5.1.22
(2026-06-27). DrugBank's releases page states that all academic dataset downloads are
temporarily paused while it changes how data are distributed, and every download link
(including the CC0 "Open Data" vocabulary and structures) shows "Temporarily
unavailable" — scripted downloads return HTTP 403. Until access resumes, work from a
copy you already downloaded (pin and cite its version), check
https://go.drugbank.com/releases/latest, or route the question to an open source listed
under "Does NOT Trigger". Academic data are licensed CC BY-NC 4.0; commercial use and
the Clinical API (https://api.drugbank.com/v1/, API-key header) need a paid license.