The construction of web database server-client system for functional food factors.
In food, other than known nutrients, such as lipid, carbohydrate, protein, vitamins, and minerals, many substances with physiological function and medicinal action exist, and it is contributing to healthy improvement and/or prevention of illness. Although carotenoid, flavonoid and polyphenol, terpenoid, volatile substance and sulfur compounds, peptide, etc. have the function of illness prevention, and research of those non-nutrient functional food factors (FFF) became globally active, the research of this field is not yet done systematically. We evaluate function of FFF and reappraise known knowledge, and this knowledge is standardized and accumulated, aimed at building a web database server-client system which is easy to use for the people and nutritional research. We also collected related data such as chemical characters of FFF from literatures and other source, and formatted them into the database. We constructed the web database server-client system with MySQL database server and Apache web server based on Linux, and used Tomcat JSP engine for data connecting since they were reliable in stability and speed. We are opening the database at http://www.life-science.jp/FFF for test now.
Zhuo
Xing-Gang
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Study Group on Functional Food Factors, Department of Nutrition Science, Faculty of Applied Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1-1-1 Sakuragaoka Setagaya, Tokyo 156-8502, Japan.
Watanabe
Shaw
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D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005502:Food / Q000592:standards; D005504:Food Analysis; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008019:Life Style; D014584:User-Computer Interface