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Table 2 List of drug metabolic databases

From: Metabolomic analyses for atherosclerosis, diabetes, and obesity

Link of the databases

Teams or specificity

Numbers of metabolites

Data included

DrugBank ( http://www.drugbank.ca/)

A blended bioinformatics and cheminformatics database of drugs and their targets

~4,800 drug entries (>1,350 FDA*1-approved small molecule drugs, 123 biotech drugs, 71 nutraceuticals and >3,243 experimental drugs.

Chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical data; sequence, structure, and pathway information

PharrmGKB ( http://www.pharmgkb.org/)

A central repository for genetic, genomic, molecular and cellular phenotype data and clinical information of people who have participated in pharmacogenomics research study

>20,000 genes;

Data of clinical and basic pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenomic research in the cardiovascular, pulmonary, cancer, pathways, metabolic and transporter domains

>3,000 diseases;

>2,500 drugs;

~ 53 pathways

~470 genetic variants affecting drug metabolism

STITCH ( http://stitch.embl.de/)

Search tool for interactions of chemicals

More than 68,000 different chemicals including 2,200 drugs, and connects them to 1.5 million genes across 373 genomes

Information about interaction of metabolic pathways, crystal structures, binding experiments and drug-target relationships

SuperTarget ( http://insilico.charite.de/supertarget)

A core dataset of drug-target relations

~7,300 relations to 1,500 drugs

Drug-target relations; tools for 2D*2 drug screening and sequence comparison of the targets

Therapeutic Target DB ( http://xin.cz3.nus.edu.sg/group/ttd/ttd.asp)

A therapeutic target database

1,535 targets and 2,107 drugs/ligands

Information about the known therapeutic protein and nucleic acid targets; the targeted disease conditions; the pathway information; and drug/ligands of targets

  1. Abbreviations: *1FDA: US food and drug administration; *2-D: 2 dimensional.