NAP
Natural Actives & Pharmacology. An open database of ethnomedical and ethnopharmacological information: which organisms and which compounds were studied in the scientific literature, how they were studied and what was found.
How it works
Everything starts from a citation, a published paper. From it we record the organism that was studied, which part of it and where it came from, and the experiments that were run on it: what was tested, on what model, at what dose, with what result.
Organism records are specimens, one per publication, so the same species appears many times under slightly different names. A taxon layer reconciles those names, which is why searching by name gives you taxa and why a taxon is the shortest route to everything known about a species. The FAQ goes through this in more detail.
Pick one of the entry points below to run your own search, or use the search box at the top of any page.
Start from a plant or an animal
Search for a taxon by name. You get one result per name, and following it lists every experiment recorded on that taxon.
Start from a compound
Search for a compound by name. Its page gives you its class, its codes, its synonyms and where it shows up.
Start from an activity
Read through every activity name we record, narrowing the list as you type. Following one gives you the experiments that measured it, whatever the organism or the compound involved.
Ask something we did not anticipate
The whole database is a graph you can query directly. The editor comes with examples, and results export to CSV, JSON or XML.
New here? Turn on Tutorial in the menu above and the pages will walk you through what to click. You can turn it off again at any time from the same place.