covid19dbcand

Pre-parsed DrugBank datasets focused on COVID-19 potential treatment drugs, ready for analysis in R. Provides tibbles on drug targets, pathways, and mechanisms extracted via dbparser. A curated subset of the dbdataset limited to DrugBank's COVID-19 page.

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DrugBank

COVID-19 drug dataset

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Overview

covid19dbcand is a smaller version of the dbdataset package that contains different tibbles constituting the dataset parsed from DrugBank.

The dataset was extracted from the DrugBank XML database via the dbparser R package.

This dataset is dedicated to COVID-19 potential drugs listed in DrugBank's COVID-19 page.

About the Data

It can be used for conveniently exploring and analyzing the contents of the DrugBank database. The dataset is also intended to assist in drug discovery endeavors that plan to make use of the DrugBank database.

Moreover, it can also be used in Machine Learning in many sub-fields such as:

  • •Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • •Web Scraping
  • •Visualization

Installation

Install from CRAN

install.packages("covid19dbcand")

Load the datasets

library(covid19dbcand)

Citation

To cite covid19dbcand in publications use

citation("covid19dbcand")