Datatypes

DrugBank ID

ID drugbankid

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Accession number of a drug in DrugBank, a database of drugs and drug targets started at the University of Alberta. A drug accession is "DB" followed by five digits; salts use "DBSALT" and drug categories "DBCAT", each followed by six digits.

Categories
Medical/pharma identifiers, Chemistry
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Bioregistry
drugbank
Wikidata
P715
Quality
90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^DB(?:SALT\d|CAT\d)?\d{5}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
DB00945Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid)
DB00126Vitamin C
DB09145Water
DB945 invalidDigits are not zero-padded to five

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianИдентификатор DrugBankНомер лекарственного средства в базе данных DrugBank.

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