Table 2.
Comparisons of ETCM v2.0 to other existing TCM databases.
| Database | TCM Formulas |
Chinese Patent Drugs |
Chinese medicinal materials |
Ingredients |
Targets |
Diseases |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total No. | No. of sourcing ancient TCM books | Total No. | No. of drugs with mark ingredients | Total No. | No. of Chinese medicinal materials with mark ingredients | Average No. of ingredients per herb | No. of herbs with referenced targets | Total No. | No. of ingredients with standards | No. of ingredient–referenced target pairs | Total No. | No. of referenced targets | Total No. | No. of disease–gene pairs | |
| ETCM 2.0 | 48,442 | 649 | 9872 | 865 | 2079 | 504 | 35 | 990 | 38,298 | 6417 | 278,787 | 1040 | 1040 | 8045 | 22,122,972 |
| HIT 2.0 | – | – | – | – | 1250 | – | – | – | 1237 | – | 10,031 | 2208 | 2208 | – | – |
| TCMBank | – | – | – | – | 9191 | – | – | – | 61,965 | – | – | 15,179 | – | 32,529 | – |
| SuperTCM | 242 | – | – | – | 6516 | – | – | – | 55,772 | – | – | 543 | – | 8634 | – |
| HERB | – | – | – | – | 7263 | – | 16 | 291 | 49,258 | – | 4815 | 12,933 | 1241 | 28,212 | – |
| ETCM 1.0 | – | – | 3962 | 478 | 403 | 263 | – | – | 7274 | – | – | 2266 | – | 4323 | – |
| YaTCM | 1813 | 2 | – | – | 6220 | – | – | – | 47,696 | – | – | 18,697 | – | – | – |
| TCMID 2.0 | 46,929 | – | – | – | 8159 | – | 2 | – | 43,413 | – | – | 17,521 | – | 4633 | – |
| TCMSP | – | – | – | – | 499 | – | – | – | 29,384 | – | – | 3311 | – | 837 | – |