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Int. J. Fundamental Applied Sci. Vol. 2, No. 2 (2013) 29
RESEARCH NOTE
Open Access
ISSN 2278-1404
International Journal of Fundamental & Applied Sciences
An updated version of Phytomellitus Database
Talambedu Usha1*, Lakshminarayan Akshya1 , Sanjay Kundu2, Radhika K Nair1, Ibnul
Hussain2, Sushil Kumar Middha1
1
Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College For Women, Bangalore-12, 2Department of
Biotechnology, Amritha Vidya Vishwapeetham, Kerala
@2012 BioMedAsia All right reserved
BACKGROUND: Keeping adverse effects of
antidiabetic drugs in mind scientists have now
diverted towards identification of plant based
novel drugs with more potential and lesser side
effects which in turn will reduce economic and
clinical toll of Diabetes. OBJECTIVE:
Upgradation
of
Phytomellitus database
includes
introductory details of Diabetes
mellitus and its future statistical aspect,
alongwith details of Ayurvedic world or its
traditional medicines. It also give option of
Home, Types, Diabetes Dictionary, Diabetes
Mining, Diabetes Drug, Diabetes Quiz,
Diabetes FAQ’s on the top of Home Page and
options like Copyright, Terms of Use,
Contributors, Contact Us in the bottom of the
page.
METHODOLOGY:
Methodology
remains same as per author’s previous
manuscripts1,2. RESULTS: Up-gradation was
needed to maintain and incorporate new data
and chemical composition of the plants
including their structural views. Older version
of the phytomellitus includes 31% were whole
plants, 26% leaves, 11% seeds, 10% roots, and
9% fruits from the collected data1. New version
includes more than 250 number of
ethanobotanical information than the previous
one. In upgraded version chemical structures of
the plants with their IUPAC nomenclature
author have incorporated.
Future prospects : Periodically continuous
updates shall be released to include other plants
of medicinal value. We plan to develop
*Corresponding author
Full Address :
Department of Biotechnology, Maharani Lakshmi mamnni College For
Women, 18th Cross, Bangalore-12
Ph.No: +91-9886328913
E.mail: ushatalambedu@gmail.com
provisions to search the database, to identify
plants of interest using keywords.
Figure 1: A snapshot of Phytomellitus
Acknowledgement:
Authors acknowledge University grant council Folio
No:
MRP(S)_462_09-10_KABA029_UGC_SWRO for
financial & MLACW, DBT-BIF Facility for providing
licensed softwares and lab.
Reference:
1. Middha SK, Mittal Y, Usha T, Kumar D,
Srinivasan R, Vashisth L, & Nagaveni MB,
Phyto-mellitus: A phyto-chemical database
for diabetes. Bioinformation, 4 (2009), 7879.
2. Goyal A. K., Middha SK., Usha T, Chatterjee
S, Bothra AK, Nagaveni MB, & Sen A,
Bamboo-infoline: A database for North
Bengal
Bamboo’s. Bioinformation, 5
(2010), 184-185.
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