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Introduction to Drughelper

Drughelper is an R package to identify and correct some drug names of the user's interest in order to easily work with them. Drughelper is constantly updating its dataset (once a month) from Chembl's database.

Installation

Drughelper can be installed from CRAN repository:

install.packages("drughelper")

Scripts

• checkDrugSynonym: Main function of the proyect which the user will work with.
• downloadAbsentFile: Downloads the drug dataset where the search is performed. This function is optional, otherwise checkDrugSynonym also downloads the dataset if it is not found in the current directory.
• formattingDrugName: A function which corrects a bad input for a drug name and returns the synonyms of the corrected name drug.
• AuxFunctions: Internal functions performed in order to build the dataset.

Data

Data with drugs and synonyms from ChEMBl: dhdrugs.RData. It is downloaded through downloadAbsentFile function.

Information:

Information of the columns from dhdrugs.RData:

• Drug: Name of each chosen drug.
• DrugHelperid: Identification code created for the project.
• Chemblid: Identification code from ChEMBL database.
• formula: molecular formula for each drug.
• maxphase: Clinical phase in which each drug is in.
• synonyms: All drug synonyms for each drug.
• synonymsformatted: Drug synonyms without punctuation marks or spaces.
• canonical: Canonical formula/structure of each drug.