Why this site?

GeneDrugs comes from personal experience.

As a parent of children living with medical conditions, I know how difficult it can be to find and understand the information you need.

With the initial news often comes shock. I didn't fully understand what the doctor was saying, the medical terms being used, or even what questions I should be asking.

When I got home and started digging, I found that the information was scattered everywhere — across research papers, medical databases, clinical trials and different websites. Even when the information was available, finding it and putting the pieces together wasn't easy.

That's where the idea for GeneDrugs began.

• Bring useful public research sources together in one place.
• Make it easier to discover and understand unfamiliar terminology.
• Help people find the original research and sources for themselves.
• Help you discover questions you may want to discuss with your healthcare team.
• Give you a starting point for your own research — not an ending point.
• Never pretend to replace your doctor, researchers, medical professionals or the original sources.

There may be other websites that are better suited to your particular needs, and we encourage you to use them. GeneDrugs isn't intended to replace those resources or compete with them.

When it comes to knowledge, we don't believe in competition. If another trustworthy resource helps you find the information you need, then it has helped accomplish the same thing we're trying to do here.

What does it cost?

GeneDrugs is free to use.

• No subscription.
• No account required.
• No payment required to search.
• No charge for the research content GeneDrugs presents.

GeneDrugs relies primarily on publicly available research resources and free or low-cost infrastructure. As usage grows, so may the cost of keeping the site reliable, responsive and available.

• We will never charge you for the research content itself.
• If operating costs eventually require a small charge, it will only be for services required to operate GeneDrugs, such as infrastructure, processing or other running costs.
• GeneDrugs will not use those charges to generate a profit.
• We may explore limited, unobtrusive advertising to help offset operating costs and reduce or avoid charges to users.
• Advertising will be kept separate from research results and will never influence the information, sources or results GeneDrugs presents.
• GeneDrugs does not sell access to, or charge for, the third-party public information it displays.

Feedback

GeneDrugs is an active project and we know there will always be things we can improve. Feedback is welcome.

• Information that appears incorrect.
• A search that doesn't work as expected.
• A bug or accessibility problem.
• A useful public research source we should consider.
• An idea that could make GeneDrugs more useful.

Feedback: genedrugs.feedback@outlook.com
We will review feedback and do our best to improve GeneDrugs where we can.

Protect your privacy

• Do not send medical records.
• Do not send photographs containing identifying information.
• Do not send screenshots containing personal or medical information.
• Do not include names, addresses, identification numbers or other personally identifiable or sensitive information.
• If a screenshot is necessary to demonstrate a problem, remove or obscure all identifying information before sending it.

About research submissions

• Please do not send or upload copies of paywalled journal articles, books, publications or other copyrighted material that you do not have the right to distribute.
• Copyright and licensing restrictions can create legal issues for both GeneDrugs and the person submitting the material.
• Instead, send us a link, DOI, citation or title.
• Where possible, GeneDrugs can use the publisher's page, an official database or a legally available open-access version.

We want GeneDrugs to make research easier to discover — not to bypass publishers, paywalls or copyright restrictions.

A small request from us

Please remember that there are real people behind GeneDrugs.

We welcome criticism, corrections, suggestions and disagreement. They can help us make the site better. We simply ask that feedback remain respectful.

If something isn't working or you think we can do something better, tell us. We'll review it and do our best to improve it.

Thank you for helping us make GeneDrugs better.