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Medicine Ontology Pharmacovigilance toolkit SPARQL

Pharmacological Actions

Interface to National Library of Medicine MESH SPARQL endpoint to obtain the pharmacological action of a medication, using the following type of query:

PREFIX rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
PREFIX owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
PREFIX meshv: <http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/vocab#>
PREFIX mesh: <http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/>
PREFIX mesh2020: <http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2020/>
PREFIX mesh2019: <http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2019/>
PREFIX mesh2018: <http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2018/>
PREFIX : <urn:ex:>
SELECT DISTINCT ?paLabel
FROM <http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh>
WHERE {
?s ?p ?n . 
?possible_concepts (:|!:){,3} ?s . 
BIND (?possible_concepts as ?fresh_possible_concepts) .
?fresh_possible_concepts (:|!:){,3} ?n . 
?fresh_possible_concepts rdf:type meshv:TopicalDescriptor .
?fresh_possible_concepts meshv:pharmacologicalAction ?pa .
?pa rdfs:label ?paLabel .} '

Compare the results obtained via MESH with results obtainable via US FDA National Drug Code (NDC) Directory data:

MESH results for ‘Stribild’:

  • Anti-HIV Agents

US FDA NDC results for ‘Stribild’:

  • Mechanism of Action
    • HIV Integrase Inhibitors
    • Cytochrome P450 2C9 Inducers
    • Cytochrome P450 3A Inhibitors
    • P-Glycoprotein Inhibitors
    • Cytochrome P450 2D6 Inhibitors
    • Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide 1B1 Inhibitors
    • Organic Anion Transporting Polypeptide 1B3 Inhibitors
    • Breast Cancer Resistance Protein Inhibitors
    • Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
    • Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
  • Established Pharmacological Class
    • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor
    • Cytochrome P450 3A Inhibitor
    • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
    • Human Immunodeficiency Virus Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
    • Hepatitis B Virus Nucleoside Analog Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
  • Chemical Structure
    • Nucleosides

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Pharmacovigilance toolkit

Label grep

Experimental application to allow quick search across USPI and SmPC for multiple drugs.

Paste a comma-separated list of medications (either generic or brand name can be used).

Press fetch.

Enter a search term.