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. 2020 Nov 5;49(D1):D1160–D1169. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa997

Table 1.

Differences in data content between DrugCentral 2016 (first release), 2018 and 2021 (current release)

Entities (annotated drugs, or active pharmaceutical ingredients)
DrugCentral 2016 DrugCentral 2018 DrugCentral 2021
Active pharmaceutical ingredients 4444 4531 4642
 FDA drugs 2021 2094 2220
 EMA drugs 239 272 354
 PMDA drugs 80 86 167
 Small molecules 3799 3825 3876
 Biologics and peptides 239 282 315
 Other drugs 294 309 395
 Parent molecules 199 (308) 211 (327) 216 (332)
Drug efficacy targets 837 (1689) 855 (1756) 872 (1760)
 Human protein targets 600 (1387) 613 (1447) 659 (1534)
 Infectious agents targets 194 (221) 197 (224) 212 (230)
 Protein–drug crystal complex (PDB) 48 (82) 333 (139) 411 (165)
 All protein–drug crystal complex (PDB) 1452 (283) 3991 (433) 5576 (799)
 Bioactivity data points 13 825 (1792) 15 481 (1911) 16 843 (2052)
 Human proteins 10 427 (1605) 11 241 (1692) 12 373 (1837)
 Other species 3398 (1002) 4240 (1175) 4470 (1235)
Pharmacological classification
 WHO ATC code 4195 (2941) 4889 (2978) 5067 (3082)
 FDA Established Pharmacologic Class 428 (1165) 450 (1220) 462 (1256)
 MeSH pharmacological action 424 (2529) 457 (2615) 447 (2661)
 ChEBI ontology roles 285 (1487) 295 (1529) 303 (1607)
Drug indications 2224 (2247) 2167 (2371) 2241 (2496)
 Drug contra-indications 1458 (1376) 1407 (1379) 1415 (1399)
 Drug off-label uses 847 (646) 817 (641) 818 (654)
Pharmaceutical products 67 064 (1660) 77 484 (1716) 108 035 (1810)
 Rx pharmaceutical products 29 665 (1561) 34 192 (1609) 56 515 (1697)
 OTC pharmaceutical products 37 399 (286) 43 292 (296) 51 520 (319)
External identifiers 61 349 (4444) 69 516 (4531) 63 658 (4639)
 CAS registry number 6072 (4444) 6200 (4531) 6350 (4642)
 PubChem Compound Id 4175 (4175) 4289 (4308) 4399 (4412)
 FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) 4304 (4304) 4391 (4391) 4505 (4505)
 ChEMBL-db id 5615 (4075) 6077 (4330) 6473 (4469)
 WHO INN id 3519 (3519) 3589 (3589) 3700 (3700)
 SNOMED-CT 4745 (2637) 4968 (2815) 5193 (2910)
 KEGG DRUG 3501 (3501) 3576 (3576) 3697 (3698)
 NDFRT 4171 (2406) 4256 (2479) 3464 (3314)
 RxNorm RxCUI 2897 (2897) 2988 (2991) 3107 (3110)
 IUPHAR/BPS ligand id 1345 (1345) 1391 (1395) 1599 (1599)
 UMLS CUI 2839 (2839) 2835 (2835) 2835 (2835)
 CHEBI 2557 (2557) 3824 (3830) 3855 (3861)
 MeSH 4063 (3846) 4180 (3946) 4299 (4056)
 DrugBank 2473 (2388) 2773 (2858) 3685 (3699)
 Protein Databank ligand id 646 (618) 713 (695) 695 (659)