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GenomeQuest's DrugBank Pro Database

GenomeQuest's DrugBank Pro database provides a central location for scientists, chemists and pharmaceutical researchers to search sequence and annotation information on all drugs, targets and their metabolyzing enzymes. Through an exclusive relationship with the University of Alberta, GenomeQuest provides this information to it's customers, 6 months ahead of release on the public DrugBank website.

Investigational New Drug (IND) Information

Locating information on drugs in clinical trials is difficult at best, and is highly relevant for target exploration, competitive intelligence efforts and more. DrugBank Pro provides exclusive access ( this information is never released on the public DrugBank website) to pharmacological information on drugs undergoing clinical trials. DrugBank Pro users can access cutting edge pharmacology information on investigational drugs as easily as they can on approved drugs.

DrugBank Pro - Potential Uses

DrugBank Pro alleviates the burden of having to scour multiple online resources and provides a central data source for queries like:

• Drug Targeting and Validation:
  • Show me the target(s) for drug "X". Where "X" may be the generic name or the proprietary name. Users can see the (a) basic chemistry information about the drug, (b) basic annotation about the sequence of its biological target and (c) the relationship between the two.
  • What known drug targets are similar to my gene Z?
    
    
• Target Similarity
  • Which of the genes from my microarray (or other high-throughput biology) experiment are similar to drug targets?
  • Show me targets of drugs belonging to a clinical class e.g. "drugs against depression".
    
    
• Drug Repositioning
  • Find me targets related to my target.
  • What are the metabolizing enzymes for drugs of interest to me?
  • What are the commonalities among drugs that "failed"?
  • What are the properties of successful drugs?
    

DrugBank Pro has a complete update of all drugs and their status, every 6 months and is offered as a select-access database.