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UNLABELLED: Studies of various diversified bacterial lectins/ lectin data may serve as a tool with enormous promise to help biotechnologists/ geneticists in their innovative technology to explore a deeper understanding in proteomics/ genomics research for finding the molecular basis of infectious diseases and also to new approaches for their prevention and in development of new bacterial vaccines. Hence we developed a bacterial lectin database named 'BacterialLectinDb'. An organized database schema for BacterialLectinDb was designed to collate all the available information about all bacterial lectins as a central repository. The database was designed using HTML, XML. AVAILABILITY: The database is available for free at http://www.research-bioinformatics.in.
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UNLABELLED: Lectins, a class of carbohydrate-binding proteins and widely recognized to play a range of crucial roles in many cell-cell recognition events triggering several important cellular processes encompass different members that are diverse in their protein structures, carbohydrate affinities and specificities, their larger biological roles and potential applications. To attain an effective use of all the diverse data initially an animal lectin database 'AnimalLectinDb' with information pertaining to taxonomic, structural, domain architecture, molecular sequence, carbohydrate structure and blood group specificity has been developed. It is expected to be of high value not only for basic study in lectin biology but also for advanced research in pursuing several applications in biotechnology, immunology, and clinical practice. AVAILABILITY: The database is available for free at http://www.research-bioinformatics.in.
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UNLABELLED: Herbs are the base used for treatment in Ayurveda. We describe a database named Phyto-Mellitus with information on plants traditionally used for diabetes with their chemical constituents. The active principles of these plants are antioxidant and free radical scavenging. AVAILABILITY: http://www.bicmlacw.org/bt/