Guide to Pharmacology

IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY
Content
DescriptionAn online, open-access portal to pharmacological information on all the human targets of prescription drugs
Data types
captured
Target nomenclature, pharmacological data, ligand structures
OrganismsHuman, Mouse, Rat
Contact
Research centreUniversity of Edinburgh, UK
Primary citationThe IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2020: extending immunopharmacology content and introducing the IUPHAR/MMV Guide to MALARIA PHARMACOLOGY [1]
Access
Websitewww.guidetopharmacology.org
Web service URLwww.guidetopharmacology.org/webServices.jsp
Sparql endpointrdf.guidetopharmacology.org/sparql
Miscellaneous
VersioningContent updated approx quarterly (i.e. 2020.2 indicates [year].[release number])
Curation policyManual, in-house

The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY is an open-access website, acting as a portal to information on the biological targets of licensed drugs and other small molecules. The Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (with GtoPdb being the standard abbreviation) is developed as a joint venture between the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) and the British Pharmacological Society (BPS). This replaces and expands upon the original 2009 IUPHAR Database (standard abbreviation IUPHAR-DB). The Guide to PHARMACOLOGY aims to provide a concise overview of all pharmacological targets, accessible to all members of the scientific and clinical communities and the interested public, with links to details on a selected set of targets. The information featured includes pharmacological data, target, and gene nomenclature, as well as curated chemical information for ligands. Overviews and commentaries on each target family are included, with links to key references.

  1. ^ Armstrong, JF; Faccenda, E; Harding, SD; Pawson, AJ; Southan, C; Sharman, JL; Campo, B; Cavanagh, DR; Alexander, SPH; Davenport, AP; Spedding, M; Davies, JA (8 January 2020). "The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2020: extending immunopharmacology content and introducing the IUPHAR/MMV Guide to MALARIA PHARMACOLOGY". Nucleic Acids Research. 48 (D1): D1006–D1021. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz951. PMC 7145572. PMID 31691834.