Drugbank Database
This gives you programmatic access to DrugBank's pharmaceutical database with about 9,600 drug entries and 200+ data fields per drug. You can query drug properties, analyze drug-drug interactions for polypharmacy safety checks, map targets and pathways for mechanism studies, and run chemical similarity searches using RDKit fingerprints. It's built around the drugbank-downloader Python package and walks through XML parsing, interaction network analysis, and ADMET predictions. Honestly most useful if you're already doing computational drug discovery or pharmacology research and need structured access to this specific dataset. You'll need a free DrugBank account, and the documentation is thorough about version pinning for reproducibility.
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$ npx -y skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill drugbank-database --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
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DrugBank Database
Overview
DrugBank is a comprehensive bioinformatics and cheminformatics database containing detailed information on drugs and drug targets. This skill enables programmatic access to DrugBank data including ~9,591 drug entries (2,037 FDA-approved small molecules, 241 biotech drugs, 96 nutraceuticals, and 6,000+ experimental compounds) with 200+ data fields per entry.
Core Capabilities
1. Data Access and Authentication
Download and access DrugBank data using Python with proper authentication. The skill provides guidance on:
- Installing and configuring the
drugbank-downloaderpackage - Managing credentials securely via environment variables or config files
- Downloading specific or latest database versions
- Opening and parsing XML data efficiently
- Working with cached data to optimize performance
When to use: Setting up DrugBank access, downloading database updates, initial project configuration.
Reference: See references/data-access.md for detailed authentication, download procedures, API access, caching strategies, and troubleshooting.
2. Drug Information Queries
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- Backend & APIs, Data Science & ML, Sales & Marketing, Design & UI/UX, Databases
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- Jun 3, 2026
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