Title

Authors

Affiliation

Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan

Email

usmancemb@gmail.com, aroojmumtaz1991@gmail.com; *Corresponding authors

Article Type

Database

Date

Received October 28, 2013; Accepted November 03, 2013; Published December 06, 2013

Drug development from natural sources is an important and fast developing area. Natural sources (plants) have been used to cure a range of diseases for Thousands of years. Different online medicinal plant databases provide information about classifications, activities, phytochemicals and structure of phytochemicals in different formats. These databases do not cover all aspects of medicinal plants. MAPS (Medicinal plant Activities, Phytochemicals & structural database) has been constructed with uniqueness that it combines all information in one web resource and additionally provides test targets on which particular plant found to be effective with reference to the original paper as well. MAPS database is user friendly information resource, including the data of > 500 medicinal plants. This database includes phytochemical constituents, their structure in mol format, different activities possessed by the medicinal plant with the targets reported in literature.

Availability

http://www.mapsdatabase.com.

Keywords

Medicinal activity, medicinal plants, phytochemicals, phytochemical structures, activities with target, drug designing.

Citation

Ashfaq et al. Bioinformation 9(19): 993-995 (2013)

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.