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ArticleBMC research notes2021

MPDB 2.0: a large scale and integrated medicinal plant database of Bangladesh.

Nazmul Hussain, Rony Chanda, Ruhshan Ahmed Abir, Mohsina Akter Mou, Md Kamrul Hasan, M Arif Ashraf

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  4. DISPEL: database for ascertaining the best medicinal plants to cure human diseases.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2023
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  6. New approaches in developing medicinal herbs databases.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2023
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  7. ComparativeFrontiers in genetics · 2022
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Nazmul HussainDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tejgaon College, National University of Bangladesh, Gazipur, 1704, Bangladesh.
Rony ChandaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tejgaon College, National University of Bangladesh, Gazipur, 1704, Bangladesh.
Ruhshan Ahmed AbirBio-Bio-1 Bioinformatics Research Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Mohsina Akter MouShahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Md Kamrul HasanDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tejgaon College, National University of Bangladesh, Gazipur, 1704, Bangladesh. kamrulhasanhridoy205@gmail.com.
M Arif AshrafBiology department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA. mohammadarif@umass.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0879-5835

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveMPDB 2.0 is built to be the continuation of MPDB 1.0, to serve as a more comprehensive data repertoire for Bangladeshi medicinal plants, and to provide a user-friendly interface for researchers, health practitioners, drug developers, and students who wish to study the various medicinal & nutritive plants scattered around Bangladesh and the underlying phytochemicals contributing to their efficacy in Bangladeshi folk medicine.

resultsMPDB 2.0 database ( https://www.medicinalplantbd.com/ ) comprises a collection of more than five hundred Bangladeshi medicinal plants, alongside a record of their corresponding scientific, family, and local names together with their utilized parts, information regarding ailments, active compounds, and PubMed ID of related publications. While medicinal plants are not limited to the borders of any country, Bangladesh and its Southeast Asian neighbors do boast a huge collection of potent medicinal plants with considerable folk-medicinal history compared to most other countries in the world. Development of MPDB 2.0 has been highly focused upon human diseases, albeit many of the plants indexed here can serve in developing biofuel (e.g.: Jatropha curcas used in biofuel) or bioremediation technologies (e.g.: Amaranthus cruentus helps to reduce cadmium level in soil) or nutritive diets (Terminalia chebula can be used in nutritive diets) or cosmetics (Aloe vera used in cosmetics), etc.

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Plants, MedicinalBangladeshEthnicityHumansMedicine, TraditionalPhytotherapyFolk medicineMedicinal plantMedicinal plant database of BangladeshMPDB2.0

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PMCPMC8344187

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