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Title

DIACAN: Integrated Database for Antidiabetic and Anticancer Medicinal Plants

 

Authors

Priyanka James, Vipin Anithottam Mathai, Silpa Shajikumar, Priya Antony Pereppadan, Parvathi Sudha, Raghunath Keshavachandran & Puthiyaveetil Abdulla Nazeem*

 

Affiliation

Bioinformatics Centre (DIC), College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University, KAU (PO), Vellanikkara, Kerala, India, 680656

 

Email

bic@kau.in; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Database

 

Date

Received October 04, 2013; Accepted October 19, 2013; Published November 11, 2013

 

Abstract

Medicinal plants and plant derived molecules are widely used in traditional cultures all over the world and they are becoming large popular among biomedical researchers and pharmaceutical companies as a natural alternative to synthetic medicine. Information related to medicinal plants and herbal drugs accumulated over the ages are scattered and unstructured which make it prudent to develop a curated database for medicinal plants. The Antidiabetic and Anticancer Medicinal Plants Database (DIACAN) aims to collect and provide an integrated platform for plants and phytochemiclas having antidiabetic or anticancer activity.

 

Availability

http://www.kaubic.in/diacan

 

Citation

James et al. Bioinformation 9(18): 941-943 (2013)

 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.