Title

MIC database: A collection of antimicrobial compounds from literature

Authors

Padavala Ajay Babu ^1*, Palakeerthi Srinivas Kumar¹, Polumati Padmaja¹, T Khageswara Rao¹, Sashikanth Chitti¹

Affiliation

¹Translational Research Institute of Molecular Sciences (TRIMS), Bioinformatics Division, 2-35-72, MVP Colony, Sector-10, Visakhapatnam – 530017, India

Email

ajay@trimslabs.com

Article Type

Database

Date

Received June 11, 2009; Revised July 23, 2009; Accepted July 25, 2009; Published September 05, 2009

Abstract

We describe a database named MIC database containing 2-dimensional structures of synthesized compounds/antibiotics, IUPAC name, smiles notation and the MIC values / zone of inhibition against a particular organism, strain and culture conditions. The data was collected from various literature sources such as Arkivoc, Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Journal of Bacteriology. MIC Database can be accessed at www.trimslabs.com/mic/index.htm

Keywords

database; anti-microbial; literature; medicinal

Citation

Babu et al., Bioinformation 4(2): 75-77 (2009)

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.