What is it about?
Medicinal plants are the main natural pools for the discovery and development of new drugs. In the modern era of computer-aided drug designing (CADD), there is need of prompt efforts to design and construct useful database management system that allows proper data storage, retrieval, and management with a user-friendly interface. An inclusive database having information about classification, activity and ready-to-dock library of medicinal plant’s phytochemicals is therefore required to assist the researchers in the field of CADD. The present work was designed to merge activities of phytochemicals from medicinal plants, their targets and literature references into a single comprehensive database named as Medicinal Plants Database for Drug Designing (MPD3).
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Why is it important?
The newly designed online and downloadable MPD3 contains information about more than 5000 phytochemicals from around 1000 medicinal plants with 80 different activities, more than 900 literature references, and 200 plus targets. The designed database is deemed to be very useful for the researchers who are engaged in medicinal plants research, CADD and drug discovery/development with ease of operation and increased efficiency.
Perspectives
The designed MPD3 is a comprehensive database which provides most of the information related to the medicinal plants at a single platform. MPD3 is freely available at http://bioinform.info.
Dr Faisal Gulzar
University of Sargodha
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This page is a summary of: MPD3: a useful medicinal plants database for drug designing, Natural Product Research, September 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2016.1233409.
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