BioPhytMol: a drug discovery community resource on anti-mycobacterial phytomolecules and plant extracts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of death from a single infectious organism, demanding attention towards discovery of novel anti-tubercular compounds. Natural products or their derivatives have provided more than 50% of all existing drugs, offering a chemically diverse space for discovery of novel drugs.

Description

BioPhytMol has been designed to systematically curate and analyze the anti-mycobacterial natural product chemical space. BioPhytMol is developed as a drug-discovery community resource with anti-mycobacterial phytomolecules and plant extracts. Currently, it holds 2582 entries including 188 plant families (692 genera and 808 species) from global flora, manually curated from literature. In total, there are 633 phytomolecules (with structures)

SUBMITTER: Sharma A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4206768 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature