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ReviewDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2023

New approaches in developing medicinal herbs databases.

Zahra Fathifar, Leila R Kalankesh, Alireza Ostadrahimi, Reza Ferdousi

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Review in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. TCMToxDB: a comprehensive database for the toxicological analysis of traditional Chinese medicines.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2026
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  7. Microbial fortification of pharmacological metabolites in medicinal plants.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zahra FathifarDepartment of Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Daneshgah St., Tabriz 5165665811, Iran.
Leila R KalankeshDepartment of Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Daneshgah St., Tabriz 5165665811, Iran.
Alireza OstadrahimiNutrition Research Center, Department of Clinical Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz /Ave. Golghast Atakar Neyshabouri, Tabriz 5166614711, Iran.
Reza FerdousiDepartment of Health Information Technology, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Daneshgah St., Tabriz 5165665811, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-5511-5452

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medicinal herbs databases have become a crucial part of organizing new scientific literature generated in medicinal herbs field, as well as new drug discoveries in the information era. The aim of this review was to track the current status of medicinal herbs databases. Search for finding medicinal herbs databases was carried out via Google and PubMed. PubMed was searched for papers introducing medicinal herbs databases by the recruited search strategy. Papers with an active database on the web were included in the review. Google was also searched for medicinal herbs databases. Both retrieved papers and databases were reviewed by the authors. In this review, the current status of 25 medicinal herbs databases was reviewed, and the important characteristics of databases were mentioned. The reviewed databases had a great variety in terms of characteristics and functions. Finally, some recommendations for the efficient development of medicinal herbs databases were suggested. Although contemporary medicinal herbs databases represent much useful information, adding some features to these databases could assist them to have better functionality. This work may not cover all the necessary information, but we hope that our review can provide readers with fundamental concepts, perspectives and suggestions for constructing more useful databases.

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PMID36625159
PMCPMC9830469

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