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Title |
MPDB: Molecular Pathways Brain Database
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Authors |
Gopal Madhana Vigneshwari1,
Sankaranarayana Ramamoorthy1, Aarathy Muralikrishnan1,
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Affiliation |
1Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, School of Biotechnology, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021; 2Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai - 600113, India
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Sankaran Krishnaswamy – Email: mkukrishna@gmail.com; *Corresponding author
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Article Type |
Database |
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Date |
Received January 01, 2016; Revised February 25, 2016; Accepted February 26, 2016; Published April 10, 2016
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Abstract |
Molecular Pathways Brain Database (MPDB), is a novel database for molecular information of the brain pathways and is an initiative to provide an organized platform for researchers in the field of neuro-informatics. The database currently has information from 1850 molecules for three different sensory pathways namely olfactory transduction, photo transduction and long-term potentiation. The usefulness of the database is demonstrated by an analysis of the olfactory transduction pathway which helps understand their olfactory specifity and further indicates that some of the molecules have evolved independently among these organisms as per the need of time and function.
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Availability |
The database is available for free at http://pranag.physics.iisc.ernet.in/mpdb/
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Citation |
Vigneshwari et al. Bioinformation 12(2): 32-35 (2016)
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Edited by |
P Kangueane
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ISSN |
0973-2063
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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.
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