Title

CDAC - Development of a curated database of anticancer compounds from marine resources

Authors

Sundaramoorthy Hari Prasad¹* and Munuswamy Deccaraman²

Affiliation

¹Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Vinayaga Mission University, Salem, India; ²Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Dr. MGR University, Maduravoyal, Chennai, India 600095

Email

hpbiochem@yahoo.co.in; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Views & Challenges

Date

received June 24, 2007; revised June 30, 2007; accepted July 19, 2007; published online December 01, 2007

Abstract

Anticancer compounds from marine source find application in cancer treatment. Several such compounds have been identified and documented. Here, we describe the development of CDAC, a curated database on anticancer compounds from marine sources.

Keywords

anticancer; drugs; curated database; marine

Citation

Prasad & Deccaraman, Bioinformation 2(3): 96 (2007)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.