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Drug-Repurposing Hub Reference Ingest Guide

Source Information

InfoRes ID: infores:drug-repurposing-hub

Description: The Drug Repurposing Hub is a curated and annotated collection of FDA-approved drugs, clinical trial drugs, and selected pre-clinical tool compounds. Because the compounds are annotated and well characterized, the collection is a novel tool to explore known biological targets and pathways, and a powerful way to discover new biological insights, better understand disease mechanisms, and discover new activities of existing molecules.

Citations: - {'Corsello SM, Bittker JA, Liu Z, Gould J, McCarren P, Hirschman JE, Johnston SE, Vrcic A, Wong B, Khan M, Asiedu J, Narayan R, Mader CC, Subramanian A, Golub TR. The Drug Repurposing Hub': 'a next-generation drug library and information resource. Nature Medicine. 23, 405–408 (2017).'}

Data Access Locations: - https://repo-hub.broadinstitute.org/repurposing#download-data

Data Provision Mechanisms: file_download

Data Formats: tsv

Data Versioning and Releases: irregular, Latest version: 8/19/2025, Archived versions: 3/24/2020 | 9/7/2018 | 5/16/2018 | 3/27/2017

Ingest Information

Ingest Categories: primary_knowledge_provider

Utility: powerful way to discover new biological insights, better understand disease mechanisms, and discover new activities of existing molecules.

Scope: FDA-approved drugs, clinical trial drugs, and selected pre-clinical tool compounds

Relevant Files

File Name Location Description
repo-drug-annotation-20200324.txt https://repo-hub.broadinstitute.org/public/data/repo-drug-annotation-20200324.txt

Included Content

File Name Included Records Fields Used
repo-drug-annotation-20200324.txt all rows pert_iname, clinical_phase, moa, target, disease_area, indication

Target Information

Target InfoRes ID: infores:translator-drug-repurposing-hub

Edge Types

Subject Categories Predicate Object Categories Knowledge Level Agent Type UI Explanation
biolink:SmallMolecule, biolink:MolecularMixture, biolink:ChemicalEntity biolink:Gene knowledge_assertion manual_agent mechanism of mechanism and target information
biolink:SmallMolecule, biolink:MolecularMixture, biolink:ChemicalEntity biolink:DiseaseOrPhenotypicFeature knowledge_assertion manual_agent drug indication

Node Types

Node Category Source Identifier Types Additional Notes
ChemicalEntity PubChem
DiseaseOrPhenotypicFeature MONDO
Gene HGNC
MolecularMixture PubChem
SmallMolecule PubChem

Future Modeling Considerations

qualifiers: map mechanism description text to qualifiers (e.g. 'serine protease inhibitor' => 'causal_mechanism_qualifier: inhibition'

Provenance Information

Contributors: - Vlado Dancik - code author, domain expertise - Kevin Schaper - code support - Evan Morris - code support - Sierra Moxon - data modeling, code support - Matthew Brush - data modeling, domain expertise