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Importing drug-protein interaction data from DrugBank
Hi,

I would like to import drug-protein (drug-target, drug-enzyme, etc) interactions to gene_wiki from DrugBank. Would the gene_wiki community be interested in this, and, if so, what is the best way to import this data.

Thank you for your help.

Crowegian (talk) 04:33, 24 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Hello! Unfortunately, DrugBank's license is not compatible with Wikipedia: "The DrugBank database is a freely available resource for non-commercial use." while Wikipedia/Wikidata have no such restrictions on commercial use. Therefore, it's not possible to import interactions from DrugBank on a large scale. MichaK (talk) 06:26, 24 May 2016 (UTC)


 * MichaK Thank you for the quick response. That's too bad. I've found another data source here, where the data is licensed under CC-BY. I understand that Wikidata licenses structured data under CC0, which is what I'd like to do with the data. Do you know if there would be any licensing issue going from CC-BY to CC0? Crowegian (talk) 17:29, 25 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I'm glad you found STITCH, because I maintain this database. ;-) On one hand, I'm not sure if importing STITCH into WikiData is a good idea: you have very many interactions with varying confidence levels, whereas I think Wikidata as being more black and white. On the other hand, CC-BY and CC0 are also not compatible: E.g. with CC-BY, you have to cite STITCH as the source for the information. In CC0 there's no such restriction. MichaK (talk) 11:29, 30 May 2016 (UTC)