MAPS Database: Medicinal plant Activities,Phytochemical and Structural Database |
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| Authors: | Usman Ali Ashfaq Arooj Mumtaz Tahir ul Qamar Tabeer Fatima |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan |
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| Abstract: | Drug development from natural sources is an important and fast developing area. Natural sources (plants) have been used to curea range of diseases for Thousands of years. Different online medicinal plant databases provide information about classifications,activities, phytochemicals and structure of phytochemicals in different formats. These databases do not cover all aspects ofmedicinal plants. MAPS (Medicinal plant Activities, Phytochemicals & structural database) has been constructed with uniquenessthat it combines all information in one web resource and additionally provides test targets on which particular plant found to beeffective with reference to the original paper as well. MAPS database is user friendly information resource, including the data of >500 medicinal plants. This database includes phytochemical constituents, their structure in mol format, different activitiespossessed by the medicinal plant with the targets reported in literature.Availabilityhttp://www.mapsdatabase.com |
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| Keywords: | Medicinal activity medicinal plants phytochemicals phytochemical structures activities with target drug designing |
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