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Methodology

How The Peptide Dex sources, enriches, and publishes peptide data. Educational reference—not medical advice.

· By The Peptide Dex Editorial

What we are

A plain-language peptide directory across skin care, hair, wellness, fitness, gut, and research topics. We decode INCI names, link public research records, and (where available) show retail products. We do not sell peptides or prescribe protocols.

Peptide inventory

Core entries start from the EU CosIng cosmetic ingredient inventory and curated editorial seeds (fitness, GLP-1 drugs, recovery peptides). Records live in PocketBase with human-readable summaries, categories, aliases, and vertical slice tags.

Weekly research refresh

About once per week we run an automated pipeline:

  1. Merge CosIng updates into PocketBase (cached scrape, not a full re-fetch every week).
  2. Run eight Apify actors against public APIs: PubMed, ChEMBL, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, OpenFDA, DailyMed, RxNorm, Wikidata.
  3. Import JSON research fields onto each peptide record (paper counts, trial lists, FDA label snippets, molecule links).
  4. Regenerate derived surface data: alias index, comparison pairs, A–Z letter groups.

Counts on peptide pages reflect the last successful import. Small week-to-week drift is normal.

Research fields you will see

  • PubMed — indexed paper count plus sample citations; search links to NIH.
  • ClinicalTrials.gov — study count, status, and NCT links.
  • ChEMBL — bioactivity database match; can false-positive on short or ambiguous names (we spot-check flagged pairs).
  • OpenFDA / DailyMed / RxNorm — prescription drug label context where applicable.

Pharmacokinetic snapshots

Half-life and typical dose ranges on select injectable profiles are hand-curated from cited literature—not computed by our plotter. They appear only on fitness, gut, wellness, and research peptides where PK context matters. Always treat them as reference values; prescription drugs require clinician supervision.

Retail product links

Skin-care and hair product links come from periodic brand scrapes (Sephora, Ulta, Target, Amazon). Prices and availability change; we may earn a commission on outbound retailer links.

What we do not do

We do not publish dosing protocols, sell research chemicals, or replace medical professionals. Forum stack nicknames (e.g. “Wolverine stack”) are explained editorially—not endorsed.