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Table 1 List of compound and disease/physiology databases

From: Metabolomic analyses for atherosclerosis, diabetes, and obesity

Link of the databases

Teams or specificity

Numbers of metabolites

Data included

ChEBI ( http://www.ebi.ac.UK/chebi/)

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest; Small chemical compounds

More than 15,500 chemical entities

Structure and nomenclature information

ChemSpider ( http://www.chemspider.com/)

An aggregated database of organic molecules

More than 20 million compounds

Search utilities and a large number of calculated physicochemical property values.

KEGG Glycan ( http://www.genome.jp/kegg/glycan/)

A collection of experimentally determined glycan structures

More than 11,000 glycan structures from a large number of eukaryotic and prokaryotic

Glycan structures

METAGENE ( http://www.metagene.de/)

A knowledgebase for inborn errors of metabolism

431 genetic diseases

Information about the disease, genetic cause, treatment and the characteristic metabolite concentrations or clinical test used for the diagnosis of disease

OMIM ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/)

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man: a comprehensive compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes

Contain information on all known Mendelian disorders and over 12,000 genes

The relationship between phenotype and genotype

OMMBID ( http://www.ommbid.com/)

An web-accessible book/encyclopedia describing the genetics, metabolism, diagnosis and treatment of metabolic disorders

Hundreds of metabolic disorders

Extensive reviews, detailed pathways, chemical structures, physiological data and tables

PubChem ( http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)

Structures and activities of small organic molecules

More than 19 millions

Structure, nomenclature physic-chemical data