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Table 5 List of spectral databases

From: Metabolomic analyses for atherosclerosis, diabetes, and obesity

Link of the databases

Teams or specificity

Numbers of metabolites

Data included

BML-NMR ( http://www.bml-nmr.org)

The Birmingham Metabolite Library Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) database

3,328 NMR*1 spectra of 208 common metabolite standards.

2-D 1HJ*2 -resolved spectra and 1-D 1H spectra

BMRB ( http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu/metabolomics/)

The central repository for experimental NMR spectral data, primarily for macromolecules

~500 molecules

Structures, structure viewing applets, nomenclature data, extensive 1D and 2D spectral peak lists, raw spectra and FIDs

Fiehn GC-MS Database ( http://fiehnlab.ucdavis.edu/Metabolite-Library-2007/)

The library contains data on compounds for which GC/MS data have been collected

713 compounds

Name, structure, CAS ID*3 of compounds; Spectra and retention indices of GC/MS data

Golm Metabolome Database ( http://gmd.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/)

A public access to custom GC/MS libraries

n/a

Mass spectral and retention time index libraries

HMDB ( http://www.hmdb.ca)

Human Metabolome Database;

More than 6,500;

Chemical data; Clinical data; Molecular Biology/Biochemistry data

 

Small molecule metabolites

Link to ~ 1,500 protein and DNA sequences

 

Massbank ( http://www.massbank.jp/)

A mass spectral database of experimentally acquired high resolution MS spectral of metabolites

>13,000 spectra from 1,900 different compounds

Very detailed MS data and excellent spectral/structure searching utilities

Metlin ( http://metlin.scripps.edu/index.php)

A repository for mass spectra metabolite data

15,000 structures including more than 8,000 di and tripeptides

MS/MS, LC/MS *4 and FTMS*5 data

MMCD ( http://mmcd.nmrfam.wisc.edu/)

The Madison Metabolomics Consortium Database (MMCD)

~10,000 metabolite entries; experimental spectral data on ~500 compounds

Chemical formula, names and synonyms, structure, physical and chemical properties; NMR and MS data of compounds, NMR chemical shifts, etc.

  1. Abbreviations: *1NMR: nuclear magnetic resonance; *2-D-HJ: 2 dimensional 1H- jump-and –return pulse spectrum; *3 CAS ID: compound ID assigned by chemical abstract service; *4 LC/MS: liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometry; *5 FTMS: Fourier transform mass spectrometry.