---
id: "drugbankid"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["medical", "chemistry"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/drugbankid"
---

# DrugBank ID (`drugbankid`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Medical/pharma identifiers (medical), Chemistry (chemistry)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `DB00945` — Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid)
- `DB00126` — Vitamin C
- `DB09145` — Water
- `DB945` (invalid example) — Digits are not zero-padded to five

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `drugbank`
- wikidata: `P715`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор DrugBank: Номер лекарственного средства в базе данных DrugBank.

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrugBank>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P715>
- doc: <https://go.drugbank.com/>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/drugbankid.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/medical/drugbankid.yaml>