Discussion

I generated an Excel file that compares Wikipedia safety information with PubChem LCSS information by hand for about 90 chemicals. The list of chemicals came from the original LCSS roster in Prudent Practices. In the process, I suspect that I made clerical errors, so replicating this effort electronically would be a good step. I hope that the Excel file that Bob generated will help us do this. These are the columns in the spreadsheet and what they indicate: Wikipedia Entry Is there a wikipedia entry for this chemical Chembox Does the wikipedia entry have a Chembox Safety info Does the chembox contain any safety information? GHS info Does the chembox contain GHS information PubChem LCSS? Is there a PubChem LCSS for this chemical? Pubchem sections How many content sections are there in the Pubchem LCSS Number of sets How many different sets of GHS symbols does PubChem present? Distinct sets How many different sets of symbols are there? The interesting result is that wikipedia has more coverage of the chemicals listed (95% vs, 82%), but less safety information (78% in wikipedia, 82% in Pubchem) and much less GHS info (33% of chemical listed have GHS info in wikipedia). Brian, is it possible to verify these numbers?