| URL: | http://pharmdb-k.org |
| Full name: | Integrated Bio-Pharmacological Network Database for Traditional Korean Medicine |
| Description: | PharmDB-K is publicly available, integrated bio-pharmacological Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM) database for researchers in drug discovery, which offers comprehensive information relating to TKM-associated drugs (compound), disease indication, and protein relationships. |
| Year founded: | 2015 |
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Accessible
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| Country/Region: | Korea, Republic of |
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| University/Institution: | Seoul National University |
| Address: | Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151–742, Republic of Korea |
| City: | Seoul |
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| Country/Region: | Korea, Republic of |
| Contact name (PI/Team): | Byung Woo Han |
| Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): | bwhan@snu.ac.kr |
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PharmDB-K: Integrated Bio-Pharmacological Network Database for Traditional Korean Medicine. [PMID: 26555441]
Despite the growing attention given to Traditional Medicine (TM) worldwide, there is no well-known, publicly available, integrated bio-pharmacological Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM) database for researchers in drug discovery. In this study, we have constructed PharmDB-K, which offers comprehensive information relating to TKM-associated drugs (compound), disease indication, and protein relationships. To explore the underlying molecular interaction of TKM, we integrated fourteen different databases, six Pharmacopoeias, and literature, and established a massive bio-pharmacological network for TKM and experimentally validated some cases predicted from the PharmDB-K analyses. Currently, PharmDB-K contains information about 262 TKMs, 7,815 drugs, 3,721 diseases, 32,373 proteins, and 1,887 side effects. One of the unique sets of information in PharmDB-K includes 400 indicator compounds used for standardization of herbal medicine. Furthermore, we are operating PharmDB-K via phExplorer (a network visualization software) and BioMart (a data federation framework) for convenient search and analysis of the TKM network. Database URL: http://pharmdb-k.org, http://biomart.i-pharm.org. |