Databases

DrugBank is a unique bioinformatics and cheminformatics resource that combines detailed drug (i.e. chemical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical) data with comprehensive drug target (i.e. sequence, structure, and pathway) information. Each DrugBank entry contains more than 100 data fields with half of the information being devoted to drug/chemical data and the other half devoted to drug target or protein data.

FooDB is the world’s largest and most comprehensive resource on food constituents, chemistry and biology. It provides information on both macronutrients and micronutrients, including many of the constituents that give foods their flavor, color, taste, texture and aroma.

The Natural Products Magnetic Resonance Database (NP-MRD) is an open-access, web-enabled, FAIR-compliant database containing NMR spectra and structure data for all known natural products. It also allows users to upload their own spectra.

Exposome Explorer is dedicated to biomarkers of exposure to environmental risk factors for diseases. Find detailed information on the nature of biomarkers, populations and subjects where measured, samples analyzed, methods used for biomarker analyses, concentrations in biospecimens, correlations with external exposure measurements, and biological reproducibility over time.

SMPDB is an interactive, visual database containing more than 30,000 small-molecule pathways found in humans only. It is designed to support pathway elucidation and pathway discovery in metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and systems biology. It provides detailed, fully-searchable, hyperlinked diagrams of human metabolic pathways, metabolic disease pathways, metabolite signaling pathways, and drug-action pathways.

The Bovine Metabolome Database contains detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in beef and dairy cattle. The Bovine Rumen Metabolome Database has been integrated into BMDB. The BRMDB contains data on bovine ruminal fluid metabolites.

The Toxic Exposome Database, also known as the Toxin and Toxin-Target Database, is a unique bioinformatics resource that combines detailed toxin data with comprehensive toxin target information. The database currently houses over 3,600 toxins described by over 41,000 synonyms, including pollutants, pesticides, drugs, and food toxins, linking to corresponding toxin target records.

Phenol-Explorer is the first comprehensive database on polyphenol content in foods. The database contains more than 35,000 content values for 500 different polyphenols in over 400 foods derived from the systematic collection of more than 60,000 original content values found in more than 1,300 scientific publications.

The Yeast Metabolome Database is a manually-curated database of small-molecule metabolites found in or produced by Saccharomyces cerevisiae (also known as baker’s yeast or brewer’s yeast). This database covers metabolites described in textbooks, scientific journals, metabolic reconstructions, and other electronic databases.

The Alberta Food Composition Database (AFCDB) is the first comprehensive resource on food constituents, chemistry, and biology dedicated to major Alberta-grown produce. It provides information on both macronutrients and micronutrients, including many of the constituents that give foods their flavour, colour, taste, texture, and aroma.

The E. coli Metabolome Database is an expertly-curated database containing extensive metabolomic data and metabolic pathway diagrams about Escherichia coli (strain K12, MG1655). This database includes "original” data compiled by members of the Wishart laboratory as well as material derived from hundreds of textbooks, scientific journals, metabolic reconstructions, and other electronic databases.

The ContaminantDB is a unique bioinformatics resource that combines detailed contaminant data from different online references and databases on contaminants.

MarkerDB consolidates detailed information about human biomarkers. The database covers several types of biomarkers including small molecules, proteins, genetic markers, and karyotypes. Several types of indications are covered including prognostic, diagnostic, predictive indications, as well as biomarkers of exposure and biomarkers for monitoring treatment progression.

ChemFOnt (the Chemical Functional Ontology) is a hierarchical, OWL-compatible ontology describing the functions and actions of more than 341,000 biologically important chemicals. The functional hierarchy for ChemFOnt consists of 4 functional “aspects”, 12 functional super-categories and a total of over 170,000 functional terms.

The Microbial Metabolites Database (MiMeDB) is a freely available electronic database containing detailed information about small-molecule metabolites found in the human microbiome. MiMeDB is a unique, multi-omic database that brings extensive information together about the human microbiome, the metabolome (human and microbial), the proteome (human and microbial), and the genome (microbial).