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Biological Databases for Medicinal Plant Research

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Bioinformatics resources serve as an important source of data, knowledge, and information in biological studies, including plants having medicinal properties. Most of the plants found in nature have different medicinal properties; therefore, these are used to cure many human diseases from ancient times all over the world. Plant-derived medicines are an important source of lifesaving drugs. The availability of bioinformatics resources brought a major change in medicinal plant research, in terms of time, money, and labor. In this chapter, we have focused on various biological databases which are helpful in medicinal plant research and may result in a rapid and cost-effective lead generation toward finding remedies from plants.

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  1. Department of Bioinformatics, School of Earth, Biological and Environmental Science, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya, Bihar, India

    Sonu Kumar & Asheesh Shanker

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Kumar, S., Shanker, A. (2018). Biological Databases for Medicinal Plant Research. In: Kumar, N. (eds) Biotechnological Approaches for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0535-1_29

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