dron.md

layout	id	title	build	contact	description	domain	homepage	license	preferredPrefix	products	publications	repository	tracker	activity_status
ontology_detail	dron	The Drug Ontology	method source_url owl2obo http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/dron.owl	email github label orcid hoganwr@gmail.com hoganwr William Hogan 0000-0002-9881-1017	An ontology to support comparative effectiveness researchers studying claims data.	health	https://github.com/ufbmi/dron	label url CC BY 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/	DRON	id dron.owl	id title https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-017-0121-5 Therapeutic indications and other use-case-driven updates in the drug ontology: anti-malarials, anti-hypertensives, opioid analgesics, and a large term request	https://github.com/ufbmi/dron	https://github.com/ufbmi/dron/issues	active

We built this ontology primarily to support comparative effectiveness researchers studying claims data. They need to be able to query U.S. National Drug Codes (NDCs) by ingredient, mechanism of action (beta-adrenergic blockade), physiological effect (diuresis), and therapeutic intent (anti-hypertensive).