title: MAPS Database: Medicinal plant Activities, Phytochemical and Structural Database.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://www.mapsdatabase.com.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan.
authors.forename: Usman Ali
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Ashfaq
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan.
authors.forename: Arooj
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mumtaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan.
authors.forename: Tahir Ul
authors.initials: TU
authors.lastname: Qamar
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan.
authors.forename: Tabeer
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fatima
keywords: Medicinal activity; activities with target; drug designing; medicinal plants; phytochemical structures; phytochemicals