alterlab-drugbank

alterlab-drugbank is a skill for Claude Code from AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,975 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of drugbank-database, MIT.

A data-access and analysis workflow for DrugBank, a database of medicines and their biological targets. It covers drug properties, interactions, pathways, chemical structures, and pharmacology information.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for researching medicines, checking drug interactions, studying targets and pathways, comparing chemical structures, and preparing DrugBank data for analysis.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to obtain and analyse drug records instead of manually reading individual entries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the alterlab-databases plugin — 39 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for researching medicines, checking drug interactions, studying targets and pathways, comparing chemical structures, and preparing DrugBank data for analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-drugbank
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-drugbank
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install alterlab-databases, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,975 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00085 $0.01975
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00988
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00395
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00198

Measured 9d ago against content hash 173115a42822, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alterlab-drugbank scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/drugbank_helper.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

allowed-tools: Read WebFetch Bash(curl:*) Bash(python:*)
Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to drugbank-database — 63 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/databases/alterlab-drugbank/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DrugBank Database

Overview

DrugBank is a comprehensive bioinformatics and cheminformatics database containing detailed information on drugs and drug targets. This skill enables programmatic access to DrugBank data: thousands of drug entries (FDA-approved small molecules, biotech/biologic drugs, nutraceuticals, and experimental compounds) with 200+ data fields per entry. Exact counts grow with each release — derive them from the version you download rather than quoting a fixed number (the 5.0-era figure was ~9,591 entries).

Core Capabilities

1. Data Access and Authentication

Download and access DrugBank data using Python with proper authentication. The skill provides guidance on:

  • Installing and configuring the drugbank-downloader package
  • Managing credentials securely via environment variables or config files
  • Downloading specific or latest database versions
  • Opening and parsing XML data efficiently
  • Working with cached data to optimize performance

When to use: Setting up DrugBank access, downloading database updates, initial project configuration.

Reference: See references/data-access.md for detailed authentication, download procedures, API access, caching strategies, and troubleshooting.

2. Drug Information Queries

Extract comprehensive drug information from the database including identifiers, chemical properties, pharmacology, clinical data, and cross-references to external databases.

Query capabilities:

  • Search by DrugBank ID, name, CAS number, or keywords
  • Extract basic drug information (name, type, description, indication)
  • Retrieve chemical properties (SMILES, InChI, molecular formula)
  • Get pharmacology data (mechanism of action, pharmacodynamics, ADME)
  • Access external identifiers (PubChem, ChEMBL, UniProt, KEGG)
  • Build searchable drug datasets and export to DataFrames
  • Filter drugs by type (small molecule, biotech, nutraceutical)

When to use: Retrieving specific drug information, building drug databases, pharmacology research, literature review, drug profiling.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 192 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 173115a42822

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alterlab-drugbank is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,975 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 94% identical to drugbank-database, differing in 63 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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