Table 2.
Summary of new ligands added to GtoPdb in the 2021.3 database release with comparison to the 2019.4 release (September 2019). ‘New Ligands’ column shows count of new ligands for each category; ‘Updated Ligands’ shows count of existing ligands, already curated in GtoPdb, now included in the categories. Column 4 and 5 shows the total ligands count for each category from our 2021.3 (September 2021) and 2019.4 (September 2019) database releases
| New ligands | Updated ligands | Total ligands (2021.3) | Total ligands (2019.4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approved drugs | 190 | 56 | 1688 | 1442 |
| WHO essential medicines | 55 | 34 | 282 | 193 |
| Antibacterials | 280 | 23 | 303 | 0 |
| Ligands with quantitative interaction data | 679 | 27 | 8161 | 7455 |
| Antimalarials | 37 | 5 | 114 | 72 |
| COVID-relevant ligands | 28 | 54 | 82 | 0 |
| All ligands | 1222 | 0 | 11 025 | 9803 |