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. 2022 Dec 9;51(D1):D1276–D1287. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac1085

Table 1.

Differences in data content between DrugCentral 2021 and 2023 (current release)

Entities (annotated drugs, or active pharmaceutical ingredients)
DrugCentral 2021 DrugCentral 2023
Human Human Veterinary
Active pharmaceutical ingredients 4642 4773 396
 FDA drugs 2220 2331 396
 EMA drugs 354 456 n/a
PMDA drugs 167 435 n/a
 Small molecules 3876 3952 328
 Biologics and peptides 315 364 21
 Other drugs 395 457 47
 Parent molecules 216 (332) 220 (336) 25 (35)
Off-patent status 1553 1712 166
 OFP 996 1029 119
 OFM 320 398 46
 ONP 237 285 1
Drug efficacy targets 872 (1760) 927 (1883) n/a
 Human protein targets 659 (1534) 704 (1640) n/a
 Infectious agents targets 212 (230) 222 (248) n/a
 Protein–drug crystal complex (PDB) 411 (165) 608 (271) n/a
All protein–drug crystal complex (PDB) 5576 (799) 9979 (1086) 1270 (111)
Bioactivity data points 16 843 (2052) 18 830 (2214) 1628 (193)
 Human proteins 12 373 (1837) 13 9238 (1982) 1055 (179)
 Other species 4470 (1235) 4892 (1332) 573 (135)
Pharmacological classification
 WHO ATC code 5067 (3082) 5025 (3215) 582 (208)
 FDA Established Pharmacologic Class 462 (1256) 516 (1501) 86 (141)
 MeSH pharmacological action 447 (2661) 464 (2823) 234 (301)
 ChEBI ontology roles 303 (1607) 698 (2186) 268 (242)
Drug indications 2241 (2496) 2437 (2644) 1459 (377)
Drug contra-indications 1415 (1399) 1444 (1427) n/a
Drug off-label uses 794 (654) 860 (666) n/a
Pharmaceutical products 108 035 (1810) 137 693 (1885) 1492 (377)
 Rx pharmaceutical products 56 515 (1697) 64 704 (1744) 849 (305)
 OTC pharmaceutical products 51 520 (319) 72 986 (361) 660 (130)
External identifiers 63 658 (4639) 78 928 (4773) 7651 (396)
 CAS registry number 6350 (4642) 6913 (4773) 671 (396)
 PubChem Compound Id 4399 (4412) 4590 (4529) 399 (384)
 FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) 4505 (4505) 4844 (4715) 405 (392)
 ChEMBL-db id 6473 (4469) 6733 (4603) 643 (375)
 WHO INN id 3700 (3700) 3898 (3939) 320 (323)
 SNOMED-CT 5193 (2910) 6822 (3160) 813 (341)
 KEGG DRUG 3697 (3698) 3826 (3827) 362 (383)
 NDFRT 3464 (3314) 5189 (3595) 503 (296)
 RxNorm RxCUI 3107 (3110) 3267 (3348) 346 (352)
 IUPHAR/BPS ligand id 1599 (1599) 1917 (1893) 157 (156)
 UMLS CUI 2835 (2835) 4801 (4727) 409 (395)
 CHEBI 3855 (3861) 4045 (4038) 294 (291)
 MeSH 4299 (4056) 4494 (4279) 422 (378)
 DrugBank 3685 (3699) 3939 (3933) 375 (364)
 Protein Databank ligand id 695 (659) 1093 (1154) 110 (120)