MPDB 1.0: a medicinal plant database of Bangladesh

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Title	MPDB 1.0: a medicinal plant database of Bangladesh
Authors	Mohammad Arif Ashraf¹, Achia Khatun¹, Tanzila Sharmin¹, Faraid Mobin¹, Arifur Rahman Tanu¹, Toufique Morshed², Tawkir Ahmad Fakir³, Rifat Ara Begum¹ & AHM Nurun Nabi¹*
Affiliation	¹Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; ²Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology; ³Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Email	nabi@du.ac.bd; *Corresponding author
Article Type	Database
Date	Received May 13, 2014; Accepted May 26, 2014; Published June 30, 2014
Abstract	The term of medicinal plants include a various types of plants used in herbalism with medicinal activities. These plants are considered as rich resources of ingredients which can be used as complementary and alternative medicines and, also in drug developments and synthesis. In addition, some plants regarded as valuable origin of nutrition. Thus, all these plants are recommended as therapeutic agents. Information related to medicinal plants and herbal drugs accumulated over the ages are scattered and unstructured which make it prudent to develop a curated database for medicinal plants. MPDB 1.0 database is dedicated to provide the first window to find the plants around Bangladesh claimed to have medicinal and/or nutritive values by accumulating data from the published literatures. This database contains 406 medicinal plants with their corresponding scientific, family and local names as well as utilized parts for treatment from different districts of Bangladesh. Information regarding ailments is available for 353 plants. In addition, we have found active compounds for 78 plants with their corresponding PubMed ID.
Availability	www.medicinalplantbd.net
Keywords	Medicinal plants, Database, MPDB 1.0, Active agents.
Citation	Ashraf et al. Bioinformation 10(6): 384-386 (2014)
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.