Download KEGG Drug data

Question

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Hello all,How to download the KEGG Drug data and drug-target pairs information? Thank you!

Answer 1

[natasha.sernova]

There was a similar question in biostars before:

How To Download Kegg Drug Database

To reach KEGG-drugs go here:

http://www.genome.jp/kegg/drug/

then you enter some grug name, I’ve used aspirin

http://www.kegg.jp/kegg-bin/search?q=aspirin&display=drug&compound_thumbnail=&pathway_thumbnail=&drug_thumbnail=&from=drug&lang=&target=compound%2Bdrug%2Bdgroup%2Benviron%2Bdisease

and you will get a table with drug-D-codes on the left. If you press the link, you will have a formula and other details.

Two papers below describe drug-target pairs:

The authors of the article below say their results are compatible with KEGG.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086078/

The paper at the bottom describes KEGG drugs and their compounds. "Chemical structures of drugs and other compounds were obtained from the KEGG DRUG and KEGG LIGAND databases" (Kanehisa et al., 2008).

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/12/i246.full