RESEARCH NOTE 04 — NAVIGATION
Most catalogs are sorted A to Z, which helps no one studying a pathway. Ours is sorted by what a molecule does. Here is why, and how to use it.
An alphabetical list treats every compound as a stranger to every other — no relationships, no pathways, just a queue. If you are studying tissue repair, the list makes you read all of it, A through Z, to find the few entries that touch your question. Sorting by popularity is no improvement; it ranks for the storefront, not for the science.
We group each compound by the primary biological system the peer-reviewed literature has actually investigated it for. Not by name, not by demand — by mechanism. The catalog reads the way a research question does.
The archive divides into five:
The walls are not rigid — some compounds have been studied across more than one room — but a primary assignment gives you a place to start instead of a wall of names.
Filing by mechanism does something a name-sorted list can't: it surfaces neighbors. Working with one compound, you can see the mechanistically related ones beside it — a researcher on BPC-157 will find GHK-Cu shelved in the same Tissue room, investigated for adjacent pathways. Browse it that way on the catalog.
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