TCRD Home Page

This page contains information related to the implementation and current status of the Target Central Resource Database (TCRD) at UNM.

TCRD is the central resource behind the Illuminating the Druggable Genome Knowledge Management Center (IDG-KMC). TCRD contains information about human targets, with special emphasis on four families of targets that are central to the NIH IDG initiative: GPCRs, kinases and ion channels (note that olfactory GPCRs are treated as a separate family. A key aim of the KMC is to classify the development/druggability level of targets. We currently categorize targets into four development/druggability levels (TDLs) defined as follows:

Tclin:

• These targets have activities in DrugCentral (ie. approved drugs) with known mechanism of action.

Tchem:

• These targets have activities in ChEMBL, Guide to Pharmacology or DrugCentral that satisfy the activity thresholds detailed below.

Tbio:

• These targets do not have known drug or small molecule activities that satisfy the activity thresholds detailed below AND satisfy one or more of the following criteria:
  • target is above the cutoff criteria for Tdark
  • target is annotated with a Gene Ontology Molecular Function or Biological Process leaf term(s) with an Experimental Evidence code

Tdark:

• These are targets about which virtually nothing is known. They do not have known drug or small molecule activities that satisfy the activity thresholds detailed below AND satisfy two or more of the following criteria:
  • A PubMed text-mining score from Jensen Lab < 5
  • <= 3 Gene RIFs
  • <= 50 Antibodies available according to http://antibodypedia.com

Activity Threshold

In order to be saved in TCRD and thus be used for TDL assignments, activity values from DrugCentral and ChEMBL must be standardizable to -Log Molar units (via an automated process) AND meet the the following target-family-specific cutoffs:

• GPCRs: <= 100nM
• Kinases: <= 30nM
• Ion Channels: <= 10μM
• Non-IDG Family Targets: <= 1μM

Here are tables of TDL counts from the current version of TCRD:

TDLs by IDG Target Family

Family	Total	Tclin	Tchem	Tbio	Tdark
GPCR	406	102	171	103	30
Kinase	635	68	387	161	19
IC	344	127	90	108	19

TDLs for all 20,412 TCRD Targets

TDL	Count
Tclin	704
Tchem	1971
Tbio	12058
Tdark	5679