Beyond Bioinformatics

Title

A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma

Authors

Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass, Anusha Bhaskar*

Affiliation

PG Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Bishop Heber College, Vyalur Road, Tiruchirappalli 620 017;

Email

anushaparthiban@gmail.com; * Corresponding author

Article Type

Web Database

Date

received September 25, 2007; revised October 22, 2007; accepted November 12, 2007; published online December 05, 2007

Abstract

The knowledge of most plants used in the treatment of asthma, the plant part which is effective in treatment is confined to very few persons who are engaged in folklore medicine. However, this form of medicine is not very popular. Therefore, it is of considerable interest to ethno-botanical community to understand the plants and the parts used for treatment. Here, we describe AsthmaPlantBase, a database containing information of medicinal plants for treatment of asthma.

http://www.asthmaplants.com

Keywords

asthmaplants; medicinal; database; phytochemical; active principles  

Citation

Kasirajan et al., Bioinformation 2(3): 105-106 (2007)

Edited by

P. Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics Publishing Group

Copyright

Publisher

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License

This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.