# HERB（中药高通量实验与文献数据库）

License: unverifiable (NOASSERTION); Mdexa hosting: pending. License unverifiable: Database terms page could not be opened; no data license found; link only until resolved.

- Commercial use: Unclear · Derivatives: Unclear · Redistribution: Unclear · File on Mdexa: No
- License status: Unverifiable (NOASSERTION)
- Mdexa hosting: Pending — License unverifiable: Database terms page could not be opened; no data license found; link only until resolved.
- Last verified: 2026-11-12
- Card: https://mdexa.com/datasets/herb/

## Key facts

- Domain: Chinese materia medica, Genomics and omics, Pharmacy and drugs
- Content type: Databases
- Size: 7,263 items (herbs); 49,258 items (ingredients); 12,933 items (targets); 28,212 items (diseases); 1,037 items (high-throughput experiments (v1)); 2,231 items (high-throughput experiments (v2)) — 7,263种中药、49,258个成分、12,933个靶点、28,212个疾病；1,037项高通量实验（v1）；v2 为2,231项实验
- Language: Chinese
- Modality: Tabular
- Publisher: 北京中医药大学（Fang 等，NAR 2021；HERB 2.0 于 NAR 2025）
- Year: 2020（v2：2025）

## Commercial use of HERB（中药高通量实验与文献数据库）

- Commercial use: Unclear (Unstated).
- License status: Unverifiable.
Verdicts record what sources state and are not legal advice.

## HERB（中药高通量实验与文献数据库） license evidence

Database terms page could not be opened; no data license found

- **Paper** — CC-BY-NC-4.0: Paper CC BY-NC 4.0; NAR page says commercial reuse requires contacting the publisher — "Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction" — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7779036 (2026-11-12; Page opened)
- **Dataset page**: Database page says free access, no registration; no data license; herb.ac.cn terms could not be opened [Note: No URL recorded, so no snapshot exists] (—; Not opened; second-hand, not verified)
- **Secondary source**: NGDC page lists the database as Accessible without a license [Note: No URL recorded, so no snapshot exists] (—; Second-hand only; second-hand, not verified)

## Source and lineage

Manual curation of literature and re-analysis of high-throughput experiments

## Known issues with HERB（中药高通量实验与文献数据库）

- The NAR paper page notes commercial reuse requires contacting the publisher
- The database's own terms (herb.ac.cn) could not be opened this time
- The NGDC page lists the database as Accessible without a license

## Preflight

Not run (data not ingested).

## Downloading HERB（中药高通量实验与文献数据库） and API access

Mdexa does not serve files. Original source:
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7779036

## Citing HERB（中药高通量实验与文献数据库）

No recommended citation text.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://mdexa.com/datasets/herb.json
- 2026-11-13 Added specialty tags: tcm-materia-formulas(inferred).
- 2026-11-13 Added dataset-level tags: 1 (0 stated by the authors with excerpts, 1 inferred from the content). No conclusion changed.
- 2026-11-12 Added verbatim license excerpts and snapshot ids from captured page snapshots; no conclusion changed.
- 2026-11-12 License status split into license_status (what the license says) and hosting (what Mdexa does); the earlier conclusion is kept for traceability.
- 2026-11-12 Card converted from an earlier manual catalog; no new facts added; reclassified under taxonomy v2.

## Continue in this database

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