Release Notes
Investigate drugs after their first mention in a clinical trial with new Exploratory cards
Get an early look at drugs shortly after they’re first mentioned in a clinical trial. Exploratory cards are ideal as a starting point to explore the related trials, conditions, phases, and sponsors of a novel drug. While these drug cards contain very limited information they can prove to be extremely insightful for early discovery.
NEW DATA
Quickly navigate drug data with DrugBank Card Types
We’ve introduced a drug data categorization system to make navigating our drug data easier. With three categories, exploratory, mapped, and enriched that each serve a unique research purpose, you can quickly identify the drug data that will best match your research needs. Card Types can be found on each drug card. Learn more.
FEATURE TABLE BUILDER
Filter out the noise of non-human related diseases with the new Smart Focus Table Setting
Dig into relevant human disease data without manually wading through distracting, unrelated information. Turn on Smart Focus: Human Diseases in the new Table Settings to have human disease data (e.g. Breast Cancer, Major Depressive Disorder, Influenza) prioritized and most non-human and non-disease data (e.g. anatomical terms, devices, procedures, study methodology) hidden.
FEATURE TABLE BUILDER
Improved filtering in Table Builder cuts out the confusion
We heard from many of you that the Table Builder filtering options were causing confusion. To make it easier to know whether you’re selecting or applying a filter we’ve restyled and relabeled the filter menu buttons. Welcome to button clarity!
IMPROVED TABLE BUILDER
Pinpoint Clinical Trial data within a particular date range with our new start and end date filters
You can now narrow your data table to clinical trials within any date range with our new start and end date filters. Whether you want historical trials that ended 20 years ago, or are interested in trials that are ongoing until 2031, these filters let you fine tune your results.
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New Support Center article outlines the strength of our Clinical Trial Data
Get to know our Clinical Trial data better with this in-depth article that covers everything from where we source our data to how we maintain and connect it into the larger DrugBank knowledgebase. This article outlines specific uses, with examples, as well as known limitations and our planned fixes. Learn more.
NEW SUPPORT CENTER
The Table Builder landing page has been redesigned for easier navigation
Picking a starting point and building a custom data table from DrugBank data is now easier. The redesign helps you quickly identify which entry point to our data will best suit your specific research questions.
IMPROVED TABLE BUILDER
Reorder and resize columns now available in Table Builder
You can now customize and adjust any new or existing table by rearranging and resizing your data columns. Any customizations can be saved and returned to when you save a table to Your Saved Items. Column controls can be found in each column’s header.
FEATURE TABLE BUILDER
Data cards can now be viewed and saved directly in the Table Builder
You can now explore our data cards directly in the Table Builder. This enables you to quickly shift between building a table and exploring the finer details of specific drugs, targets, trials, conditions without flipping between screens or tabs. You can also add any card to Your Saved Items from within the Table Builder to read later.
FEATURE TABLE BUILDER
New Data: OpenTargets Association Scores added to the Table Builder
You can now quickly understand the strength of evidence linking a target to a disease by adding OpenTargets Association Scores to your Protein or Disease tables. To view, add the OpenTargets column to your table. You can also learn more about the Association Scores and how they are measured by clicking the column’s header.
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Journal Reader PubMed articles now available within the Table Builder
You can now read all the supporting PubMed articles that make up our Journal Reader data directly in the Table Builder. To explore, add Journal Reader data to a Protein or Drug table, select the purple Reading Comprehension Rating, and browse the supporting references.
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Journal Reader data is now easier to access in Protein and Drug tables
Toggling the Journal Reader ‘on’ in the top righthand corner of a Protein or Drug table will now automatically add the Action Type column and expose relevant Journal Reader data. This has been enabled so that you no longer have to go digging for these emerging PubMed insights.
IMPROVED TABLE BUILDER
Learn more about Developmental Milestone data directly in the Table Builder
From within a Protein or Disease table in the Table Builder you can learn more about our Developmental Milestone data. Once this column has been added to a table, click on the column header to gain a deeper understanding of this information, such as how developmental milestones are defined and classified, without having to navigate away from the page.
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Faster browsing in the Table Builder with flexible column lengths
To eliminate lag and ensure efficient browsing we’ve introduced tiered see more and collapse options to expand and minimize the number of rows shown in a column. This is especially useful for our Journal Reader, which is pulling from millions of articles and can result in the addition of hundreds of rows of data added to your table at once.
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Conditions Browse & Search previews now include MeSH mappings data
In addition to ICD-10, MedDRA, and SNOMED, all Conditions card previews in our Browse and Search results now include mappings for MeSH. You can now quickly get a full picture of all mappings information available without clicking into the detailed cards.
IMPROVED BROWSE & SEARCH
Improved Related Drugs data in Table Builder
We’ve streamlined Related Drugs data by consolidating all related drug details, including Approval Status and Number of Indications, under one nested header. This reduces repetitive columns and makes your tables easier to read and analyze. Any tables you had saved have automatically been updated to reflect these improvements.
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New Filter: Refine and explore drugs by Modality
You can now sort and explore drugs by small molecule drugs and a variety of biologic therapies with the Modality column and accompanying filter.
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Improved DrugBank dashboard
We’ve updated the DrugBank dashboard to streamline access to high priority features and to the new DrugBank Support Center, quickstart guides, and our suggested workaround for temporary limitations.
IMPROVED DASHBOARD
Browse & Search previews now more comprehensive
Better understand the content of each card before clicking in, with improved summaries for each result and previews displayed as a sidebar.
IMPROVED BROWSE & SEARCH
Descriptions for each data column now easier to view
You can read column descriptions directly in Table Builder by hovering over the name of each column you are curious about—enabling you to more quickly find what is relevant to your work.
NEW TABLE BUILDER
New Filter: Clinical Trial Details provides more flexibility
Enabled to allow you to refine your table by any relevant clinical trial detail, this filter takes the guesswork out of choosing your starting point.
NEW TABLE BUILDER
DrugBank Support Center launches to provide guidance to uesrs
You can now find quickstart guides, known limitations, recommended workarounds, and our changelog all in one place.
NEW SUPPORT CENTER
Disease Tables are available in the Table Builder
You can now start your Table Builder exploration from a disease perspective and build data tables that naturally support disease-focused research.
FEATURE TABLE BUILDER
Save Cards to Your Saved Items
Quickly return to Cards of interest by saving them to Your Saved Items.
NEW CARDS
Disease Area filtering now available throughout the Table Builder
You can now zone in on specific disease and condition data, and explore their connections to your work through every starting point in the Table Builder.
NEW TABLE BUILDER
Search & Browse results now prioritize the most valuable results first
Get to what you are looking for faster with improved Search results that return better matches.
IMPROVED SEARCH & BROWSE
Expanded Clinical Trial data coverage
Thousands of INN drugs in early clinical trials have been added to our knowledgebase to deliver more robust Clinical Trial coverage.
NEW DATA
Improved Table Builder filtering now includes synonyms
Find the data you are looking for faster and easier with a more robust filter search in Table Builder. Filter search now enables you to search using the terminology most familiar to you.
IMPROVED TABLE BUILDER
Target-disease associations can now be found on Target Cards
You can now quickly get a picture of the relevant disease association data on the top of every Target Card as a result of enhanced Open Target and TTD integrations.
IMPROVED CARDS
Query Builder has been renamed to Table Builder
A change in name only, we’ve updated to Table Builder to better reflect what you’re able to accomplish with this tool.
UPDATED TABLE BUILDER