MPD3: a useful medicinal plants database for drug designing.
Medicinal plants are the main natural pools for the discovery and development of new drugs. In the modern era of computer-aided drug designing (CADD), there is need of prompt efforts to design and construct useful database management system that allows proper data storage, retrieval and management with user-friendly interface. An inclusive database having information about classification, activity and ready-to-dock library of medicinal plant's phytochemicals is therefore required to assist the researchers in the field of CADD. The present work was designed to merge activities of phytochemicals from medicinal plants, their targets and literature references into a single comprehensive database named as Medicinal Plants Database for Drug Designing (MPD3). The newly designed online and downloadable MPD3 contains information about more than 5000 phytochemicals from around 1000 medicinal plants with 80 different activities, more than 900 literature references and 200 plus targets. The designed database is deemed to be very useful for the researchers who are engaged in medicinal plants research, CADD and drug discovery/development with ease of operation and increased efficiency. The designed MPD3 is a comprehensive database which provides most of the information related to the medicinal plants at a single platform. MPD3 is freely available at: http://bioinform.info .
a Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology , Government College, University Faisalabad (GCUF) , Faisalabad , Pakistan.|b Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology , Virtual University of Pakistan , Lahore , Pakistan.
Arooj
A
Mumtaz
a Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology , Government College, University Faisalabad (GCUF) , Faisalabad , Pakistan.
Usman Ali
UA
Ashfaq
a Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology , Government College, University Faisalabad (GCUF) , Faisalabad , Pakistan.|c Center of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB) , University of Agriculture (UAF) , Faisalabad , Pakistan.
Muhammad Tahir
MT
Ul Qamar
d Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , College of Pharmacy, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University , Al-Kharj , Saudi Arabia.|e Department of Chemistry , University of Sargodha (UOS) , Sargodha , Pakistan.
Farooq
F
Anwar
f Department of Pharmcology , University of Sargodha (UOS) , Sargodha , Pakistan.
Faisal
F
Gulzar
c Center of Agricultural Biochemistry and Biotechnology (CABB) , University of Agriculture (UAF) , Faisalabad , Pakistan.|g Department of Plant Pathology , University of Agriculture (UAF) , Faisalabad , Pakistan.
Muhammad Amjad
MA
Ali
h Faculty of Food Science and Technology , University Putra Malaysia, UPM , Serdang , Malaysia.
Nazamid
N
Saari
b Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology , Virtual University of Pakistan , Lahore , Pakistan.
Muhammad Tariq
MT
Pervez
D016208:Databases, Factual; D015195:Drug Design; D055808:Drug Discovery; D009862:Online Systems; D064209:Phytochemicals; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000737:chemistry*
D064209:Phytochemicals
Medicinal plants; database management system; drug designing; phytochemicals; ready to dock phytochemical library