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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2015 Apr 17;7(4):141–161. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1297

Table 2.

Publicly available data resources that could be used for drug discovery, drug combination, and drug repositioning.

Resources Descriptions URL
DrugBank A database that combines detailed drug data with comprehensive target information over 7740 drug entries. http://www.drugbank.ca/
PharmGKB A comprehensive resource that curates knowledge linking genetic variations, drug response, and pathways. https://www.pharmgkb.org/
FDA Orange Book A list of approved drugs and drug combinations with their therapeutic equivalence evaluations. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/
European Medicines Agency (EMA) An agency of the European Union that report 950 human medicines and their therapeutic areas. http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/
SIDER A side effect database that contains information on 996 marketed medicines and their recorded adverse drug reactions. http://sideeffects.embl.de/
DrugMatrix A toxicology reference database that store the results of thousands of highly controlled and standardized toxicological experiments. https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/drugmatrix
CMap A collection of over 7,000 genome-wide transcriptional expression profiles from cultured human cells treated with bioactive small molecules. https://www.broadinstitute.org/cmap/
STITCH A database of protein–chemical interactions that integrates many sources of experimental and manually curated evidence. http://stitch.embl.de/
Therapeutic Target Database (TTD) A database to provide information about therapeutic protein and nucleic acid targets, targeted diseases, pathway information and the drugs directed at each of these targets. http://bidd.nus.edu.sg/group/cjttd/
PROMISCUOUS A resource of protein-protein and drug- protein interactions that aims to provide a uniform data set for drug repositioning and further analysis. http://bioinformatics.charite.de/promiscuous/