develop a method to identify drug name synonyms that could be changed to a more 'official' drug name

[malachig]

Many initial studies (especially phase I clinical trials) occur before the field has settled on a drug name. For example "AZD9291" became "osimertinib". It is a curation task to migrate towards the standardized and most widely accepted generic name for every drug. We should come up with a way to scan for use of such synonyms that could be replaced with the generic name according to some canonical source.

For example, the NCI Drug Dictionary:

http://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-drug