We built this ontology primarily to support comparative effectiveness researchers studying claims data. They need to be able to query U.S. National Drug Codes (NDCs) by ingredient, mechanism of action (beta-adrenergic blockade), physiological effect (diuresis), and therapeutic intent (anti-hypertensive).

Prefix

dron

Preferred Prefix

DRON

Version

2022-04-22

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage Repository OBO OWL OBO JSON

Contact

William Hogan   0000-0002-9881-1017   hoganwr

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in The Drug Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{8}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

00023232   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from The Drug Ontology should match this regular expression:
^dron:\d{8}$

Example CURIE

dron:00023232

Publications

• 2017 Therapeutic indications and other use-case-driven updates in the drug ontology: anti-malarials, anti-hypertensives, opioid analgesics, and a large term request.
• 2016 An accurate and precise representation of drug ingredients.
• 2013 Building a drug ontology based on RxNorm and other sources.

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for dron with 2 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE dron:00023232 is used to demonstrate the provides available for dron. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.