Dozens of drug terminologies and resources capture the drug and/or drug class information, ranging from their coverage and adequacy of representation. No transformative ways are available to link them together in a standard way, which hinders data integration and data representation for drug-related clinical and translational studies. In this paper, we introduce our preliminary work for building a standardized drug and drug class network that integrates multiple drug terminological resources, using Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) and National Drug File Reference Terminology (NDF-RT) as network backbone, and expanding with RxNorm and Structured Product Label (SPL). In total, the network consists of 39,728 drugs and drug classes. Meanwhile, we calculated and compared structure similarity for each drug / drug class pair from ATC and NDF-RT, and analyzed constructed drug class network from chemical structure perspective.
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