Pharmaceutical Companies Lists And Links

Question

[quentin.delettre]

I am text mining FDA applications and now i am interested by pharmaceuticals companies / sponsors.

I already made a parser to remove things like typing errors (yes there is some...) or country names in the company names but i would like to know the link between the companies as for example some are bought by others and in fine are in the same corporation.

This question is a bit weird for biostar but if you know the existance of some ressources, it would be cool.

Answer 1

[Larry_Parnell]

One resource to use for data and as an example to find other such lists of companies is the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. Their membership directory is accessible here. Another source that comes to mind is the list of companies comprising a biotech and/or pharma mutual fund. Look at the prospectus of this type of fund and capture names of companies.

[quentin.delettre]

The links you provided are fine, but not complete. If i search for TEVA, which seems to be a giant corporation with multiple subsidiaries, it is not found. But i will check further. Thanks.

[Larry_Parnell]

Sure, that's for those companies doing business in one state in the USA.

Answer 2

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

You could use dbpedia to find all the biotech companies :

select ?s ?p ?o where {
             ?s ?p ?o .
             ?s a <http://dbpedia.org/class/yago/BiotechnologyCompanies> .
             } LIMIT 100

http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=select+%3Fs+%3Fp+%3Fo+where+{%3Fs+%3Fp+%3Fo+.++%3Fs+a+%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fclass%2Fyago%2FBiotechnologyCompanies%3E+}+LIMIT+100&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=0&debug=on

[quentin.delettre]

Interesting. I was thinking about something more official but i will explore further dbpedia.