dbparser
Introduction
DrugBank database is a comprehensive, freely accessible, online database containing information on drugs and drug targets. As both a bioinformatics and a cheminformatics resource, DrugBank combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information. More information about DrugBank can be found here.
In its raw form, the DrugBank database is a single XML file. Users must create an account with DrugBank and request permission to download the database. Note that this may take a couple of days.
The dbparser package parses the DrugBank XML database into R tibbles
that can be explored and analyzed by the user, check this
tutorial for
more details.
Also, the package offers the option to save these tibbles in databases
including SQL Server DB and Maria DB just by enabling
save_table option, check this
tutorial
for more details.
If you are waiting for access to the DrugBank database, or do not intend
to do a deep dive with the data, you may wish to use the dbdataset
package, which
contains the DrugBank database already parsed into R tibbles. Note
that this is a large package that exceeds the limit set by CRAN. It is
only available on GitHub.
dbparser is tested against DrugBank versions 5.1.0 through 5.1.6
successfully. If you find errors with these versions or any other
version please submit an issue
here.
Installation
You can install the released version of dbparser from CRAN with:
install.packages("dbparser")or you can install the latest updates directly from the repo
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("ropensci/dbparser")Code of Conduct
Please note that the ‘dbparser’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.