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+# Version 1.7.3
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+* CIViC update (20240918)
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 # Version 1.7.2
 
 * CIViC update (20240904)
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 _pharmOncoX_ provides anti-cancer drug classification through existing entries in the [Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System](https://www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_index/), and these have been extended significantly with manual curation, also by establishing novel drug categories that are presently missing in the ATC classificiation tree (examples include _AURK inhibitors_, _MET inhibitors_, _BET inhibitors_, _AKT inhibitors_, _PLK inhibitors_, _IAP inhibitors_, _RAS inhibitors_, _BCL2 inhibitors_ etc.) enabling a filtering of drugs according to their main mechanisms of action.
 
-Currently (as of early September 2024), `pharmOncoX` is built upon the following 
+Currently (as of mid September 2024), `pharmOncoX` is built upon the following 
 releases of external databases:
 
  - Open Targets Platform (2024.06)
  - ChEMBL (v34)
  - NCI Thesaurus (24.07e)
  - MitelmanDB (20240715)
- - CIViC (20240904)
+ - CIViC (20240918)
 
 ### Getting started