Vocabulary

DRUGBANK

DrugBank

The DrugBank database is a bioinformatics and chemoinformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information. This collection references drug information.

chemical structurechemistry databasesdruginteraction/pathwayproteinsequence

E16

FAIR 12/48

Evaluated 26 Oct 2026

How scores work

Source & access

Homepagedrugbank.ca

homepage drugbank.ca HTTP 403

Portals & registries

Also registered as
wikidata.entity: Q1122544

Automated evaluation

F Findable FAIR4/12

Persistent identifier (F1)no PURL / w3id / DOI for the artefact0
Indexed in services (F4)1: Bioregistry+1
Citable reference (F2)doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1068+3

A Accessible FAIR6/12

Homepage reachableHTTP 403+3
Artefact retrievable over HTTP(S) (A1)no download or repository listed0
Metadata persists in a registry (A2)Bioregistry+3

I Interoperable FAIR0/12

Formal machine-readable format (I1)none of: —0
Semantic-web IRIs (I2)no RDF/OWL/JSON-LD representation0
References other vocabularies (I3)no imported vocabularies found0

R Reusable FAIR2/12

Clear license (R1.1)http://www.drugbank.ca/about (not a recognised open license)+2
Release provenance (R1.2)no version in artefact, registry or release tags0
Community standards (R1.3)no independent compliance report (not on the OBO Dashboard)0

Q Ontology consistency & qualityn/a

Not applicablevocabulary without an OWL/OBO/RDF artefact; total scaled from 80 to 1000

M Maintenance0/16

Recencyno activity evidence0
Release cadence (12 months)0 releases0

U Community adoption5/16

Documented adopting projects0 projects0
Reused by other ontologies00
Community signalmax(stars 0 → 0, citations 1781 → 5)+5

P Penalties (inactivity & inconsistency)-5

No activity evidenceno commits, releases or dated files found-5
Inactive statusnot archived, legacy or inactive0

FAIR subtotal 12/48 · earned 17/80 → scaled 21 − 5 inactivity = 16/100 → grade E

Community adoption 0

No adopting projects documented yet.

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History & changes 1 run

History starts with the first archived run; changes appear after the next evaluation.

Run	Score	FAIR	Version evaluated	Terms	Snapshot
26 Oct 2026, 03:31 UTC	16 E	12	—	—	JSON

Provenance

Every fact on this page was fetched automatically. Each row shows where it came from and when. If a source fails, the last good value is kept and marked “carried forward”.

Fact	Source	Retrieved
Homepage link check (HTTP 403)	drugbank.ca	26 Oct 2026, 02:52 UTC
Bioregistry mappings, dependencies & reuse	bioregistry.io	26 Oct 2026, 02:52 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1068)	api.crossref.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:52 UTC
Crossref citations (doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1126)	api.crossref.org	26 Oct 2026, 02:52 UTC

Run 2026-10-26T02-37-38Z · evaluator v2.0.0 · rubric v3.4 · entry.json · run snapshot

How to cite

DrugBank 4.0: shedding new light on drug metabolism (2013) · doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1068 · 1,781 citations
DrugBank 3.0: a comprehensive resource for 'omics' research on drugs (2010) · doi:10.1093/nar/gkq1126 · 1,495 citations