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A number of databases on the plant metabolome describe the chemistry and biosynthesis of plant chemicals. However, no such database is specifically focused on foods and more precisely on polyphenols, one of the major classes of phytochemicals. As antioxidants, polyphenols influence human health and may play a role in the prevention of a number of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, some cancers or type 2 diabetes. To determine polyphenol intake in populations and study their association with health, it is essential to have detailed information on their content in foods. However this information is not easily collected due to the variety of their chemical structures and the variability of their content in a given food. Phenol-Explorer is the first comprehensive web-based database on polyphenol content in foods. It contains more than 37,000 original data points collected from 638 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals. The quality of these data has been evaluated before they were aggregated to produce final representative mean content values for 502 polyphenols in 452 foods. The web interface allows making various queries on the aggregated data to identify foods containing a given polyphenol or polyphenols present in a given food. For each mean content value, it is possible to trace all original content values and their literature sources. Phenol-Explorer is a major step forward in the development of databases on food constituents and the food metabolome. It should help researchers to better understand the role of phytochemicals in the technical and nutritional quality of food, and food manufacturers to develop tailor-made healthy foods. Database URL: http://www.phenol-explorer.eu.
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Collection of chemical compounds and other small molecular entities that incorporates an ontological classification of chemical compounds of biological relevance, whereby the relationships between molecular entities or classes of entities and their parents and/or children are specified. The molecular entities in question are either products of nature or synthetic products used to intervene in the processes of living organisms.
View all literature mentionsCollaborative project to bring together biochemical pathway databases and research communities focused on plant metabolism. Used to build broad network of plant metabolic pathway databases. Central feature of PMN is PlantCyc, comprehensive plant biochemical pathway database, containing curated information from literature and computational analyses about genes, enzymes, compounds, reactions, and pathways involved in primary and secondary metabolism.
View all literature mentionsCollection of information about chemical structures and biological properties of small molecules and siRNA reagents hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
View all literature mentionsDatabase for mapping gene expression profiles to pathways and genomes. Repository of microarray gene expression profile data for Synechocystis PCC6803 (syn), Bacillus subtilis (bsu), Escherichia coli W3110 (ecj), Anabaena PCC7120 (ana), and other species contributed by the Japanese research community.
View all literature mentionsCollaborative project to bring together biochemical pathway databases and research communities focused on plant metabolism. Used to build broad network of plant metabolic pathway databases. Central feature of PMN is PlantCyc, comprehensive plant biochemical pathway database, containing curated information from literature and computational analyses about genes, enzymes, compounds, reactions, and pathways involved in primary and secondary metabolism.
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