Pharmacy Commons
Together we can cultivate our commons to create an open compendium of drug information and clinical evidence accessible to all. Query structured data in an open educational source for providers and the public. While not to be used as a substitute for direct medical evaluation or clinical recommendation, this resource can be used to aid licensed practitioners.
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About Pharmacy Commons
Pharmacy Commons is an open interface to structured pharmaceutical records. Information is sourced from public and federal repositories such as the FDA, WHO, NIH, and NLM, then modeled in a relational PostgreSQL database so that both human researchers and AI language models can retrieve evidence-bearing answers with clear citations.
Our mission
To unenclose pharmaceutical knowledge as a durable public trust. Since the public finances the discovery and validation of medical science, authoritative clinical evidence and drug facts should remain permanently transparent and portable for all.
What you can do here
- Look up a medicine by its colloquial name. Each one has a stable identifier (a PCID) and a permanent address.
- Browse by pharmacologic class, with links back to source classification systems such as RxNorm and PubChem.
- Search and compare compendium lists, such as the most-used drugs in the US and MPJE testable drugs.
- Use clinical tools, starting with the creatinine clearance calculator.
Every fact traces to its source
Each record links to where it came from, for example an FDA document identifier or a clinical study citation. Where sources disagree, the disagreement is shown rather than a side being chosen. Where reliable data exist, estimated environmental risk sits alongside clinical information, so prescribers can weigh it among clinically appropriate options.
Founder and contact
Pharmacy Commons is founded and maintained by Dr. Joshua Semock, PharmD. Corrections and questions are welcome at [email protected]. Read more about the project.