Table 1.
Comparison of DrugRepoBank with other 12 drug repositioning databases
| Data amount and features | DrugRepoBank | PharmOmics | DREIMT | DrugSimDB | NeDRex | LINCS Data Portal 2.0 | Promiscuous 2.0 | EK-DRD | RepurposeDB | repoDB | DrugSig | Promiscuous | Connectivity map | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Database | Drugs | 49 652 | 941 | 0 | 10 317 | 13 300 | 21 231 | 991 805 | 1963 | 253 | 1571 | 1300+ | 25 000 | 5000 | 
| Targets | 4221 | 18 710 | 70 | 0 | 212 745 | 0 | 9430 | 2985 | 305 | 0 | 800 | 6500 | 0 | |
| Drug–target interactions | 880 945 | 0 | 0 | 20 061 | 29 932 | 0 | 2 727 520 | 30 944 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 500 | 0 | |
| Drug–disease interactions | 28 978 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6677 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drug signature | 473 647 | 14 366 | 4694 | 0 | 36 025 | 570 862 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | 1 500 000 | |
| Disease signature | 25 | 0 | 2687 | 0 | 24 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pathway | 6700 | 0 | 0 | 3888 | 2309 | 0 | 0 | 1332 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1600 | 0 | |
| Side effect | 109 698 | 0 | 0 | 139 756 | 0 | 0 | 4964 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1100 | 0 | |
| Disease | 3379 | 0 | 0 | 10 562 | 0 | 0 | 3379 | 856 | 1125 | 2051 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Predicted targets | Yes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Yes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Literature | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Network | Network visualization | Interactive | Interactive | None | Interactive | Interactive | None | Interactive | Static | Static | None | None | Interactive | None | 
| Annotation | Functional enrichment analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | 
| Prediction algorithms | Similarity- based algorithm | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | 
| Artificial-intelligence- based algorithm | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Signature- based algorithm | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Network- based algorithm | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |
| Publications | Year | 2022 | 2021 | 2021 | 2021 | 2020 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2017 | 2010 | 2006 | |
| Publish journal | iScience | Bioinformatics | Briefing in Bioinformatics | Nature Commun-ications | Nucleic Acids Research | Nucleic Acids Research | Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling | Briefings in Bioinformatics | Scientific data | PLoS One | Nucleic acids Research | Science | ||
| Number of citations (Accessed Google Scholar on 1 September 2023) | 5 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 103 | 17 | 5 | 78 | 171 | 47 | 244 | 4848 | ||
| Web interface | Link | https://awi.cuhk.edu.cn/DrugRepoBank | http://mergeomics.research.idre.ucla.edu | http://www.dreimt.org/ | http://vafaeelab.com/drugSimDB.html | https://api.nedrex.net | https://lincsportal.ccs.miami.edu/signatures/home | http://bioinformatics.charite.de/promiscuous2 | https://www.idruglab.com/drd/index.php | http://repurposedb.dudleylab.org/ | http://apps.chiragjpgroup.org/repoDB/ | http://biotechlab.fudan.edu.cn/database/drugsig/ | http://bioinformatics.charite.de/promiscuous | https://portals.broadinstitute.org/cmap | 
| Accessibility | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Reference | (17) | (16) | (15) | (14) | (13) | (12) | (11) | (10) | (9) | (8) | (7) | (6) | ||