DrugBank Release Notes

Version 5.1.13 — Released January 02, 2025

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.12 — Released March 14, 2024

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.11 — Released January 03, 2024

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.10 — Released January 04, 2023

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.9 — Released January 03, 2022

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.8 — Released January 03, 2021

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.7 — Released July 02, 2020

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.6 — Released April 23, 2020

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.5 — Released January 03, 2020

No significant changes.

This export was originally created on Jan 1 2020, and contained invalid XML in the complete database XML file. This issue was corrected on Jan 3.

Version 5.1.4 — Released July 02, 2019

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.3 — Released April 02, 2019

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.2 — Released December 20, 2018

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.1 — Released July 03, 2018

No significant changes.

Version 5.1.0 — Released April 02, 2018

This release includes a change to the XML data and schema:

  • The DrugBank accession number for salts (now termed product ingredients) can now point to a drug (active moiety) entry.
  • Drug products from the EMA (European Medical Association) are now included in the export.
Version 5.0.11 — Released December 20, 2017

Some of the structures in the previous release were invalid, this has been corrected in 5.0.11.

Version 5.0.10 — Released November 14, 2017

This release includes a new dataset, Structure External Links. The structure external links datasets are CSV files which include structure information in the form of InChI/InChI Key/SMILES as well as identifiers for other drug-structure resources (such as ChEBI, ChEMBL, etc.). Included in each dataset is also the PubChem Compound ID (CID) and the particular PubChem Substance ID (SID) for the given DrugBank record.

This release also includes an update to the PubChem SIDs based on the latest deposition.

Version 5.0.9 — Released October 02, 2017

No significant changes.

Version 5.0.8 — Released September 21, 2017

No significant changes.

Version 5.0.7 — Released July 06, 2017

No significant changes.

Version 5.0.6 — Released April 01, 2017

No significant changes.

Version 5.0.5 — Released January 09, 2017

Fixes

  • fixes missing header in the full database xml file
Version 5.0.4 — Released January 01, 2017

No significant changes.

Version 5.0.3 — Released October 24, 2016

Fixes

  • This release fixes a bug in the Target Sequences exports (FASTA format). Specifically, there were some missing DrugBank IDs for protein/gene sequences in the FASTA headers. If you are using version 5.0.0 to 5.0.2, please upgrade to this version as soon as possible.
  • This version also includes a fix for duplicate drug-drug interactions. Each drug pair will now only include a single drug interaction description.
Version 5.0.2 — Released October 01, 2016

No significant changes.

Version 5.0.1 — Released July 01, 2016

No significant changes.

Archived Release Notes (pre version 4.5)