Title

Authors

Affiliation

¹Department of Botany, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore, TamilNadu - 641004, India; ²Department of Computer Science; PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, TamilNadu - 641014, India; ³Department of Botany, PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, TamilNadu - 641014, India

Email

kriush.sundar@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

Article Type

Database

Date

Received May 18, 2012; Accepted May 24, 2012; Published May 31, 2012

In an endeavor to screen bioactive compounds present in vegetables with effective mechanism using in silico method lead us to develop a vegetable phytochemicals and their target database (VPTD). The VPTD is a unique bioinformatics resource that compiles information about phytochemicals from vegetables and their mechanism. VPTD contains 2496 phytochemicals from 27 vegetables, their 3D images and their 1337 possible biological mechanism. Each phytochemical contain records of seven data fields providing detailed information on name, source, amount present, structure and mechanistic information. This information has been manually extracted and manually verified from numerous sources, including other electronic databases, textbooks and scientific journals. VPTD is fully searchable and supports extensive text search. The main focus of the VPTD is on providing possible mechanism of phytochemicals, which will help in discovery of potential drugs from one of the common bioresource-vegetable. VPTD is freely available.

Availabilty

http://www/vptd.in

Keywords

Vegetable, Target, Database, Phytochemical, PASS

Citation

Kriushnapriya et al. Bioinformation 8(10): 492-495(2012)
 

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.