The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database: improving public access

By Junfeng Gao, L. Ellis, L. Wackett. Nucleic Acids Res., 2009

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The University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database (UM-BBD, http://umbbd.msi.umn.edu/) began in 1995 and now contains information on almost 1200 compounds, over 800 enzymes, almost 1300 reactions and almost 500 microorganism entries. Besides these data, it includes a Biochemical Periodic Table (UM-BPT) and a rule-based Pathway Prediction System (UM-PPS) (http://umbbd.msi.umn.edu/predict/) that predicts plausible pathways for microbial degradation of organic compounds. Currently, the UM-PPS contains 260 biotransformation rules derived from reactions found in the UM-BBD and scientific literature. Public access to UM-BBD data is increasing. UM-BBD compound data are now contributed to PubChem and ChemSpider, the public chemical databases. A new mirror website of the UM-BBD, UM-BPT and UM-PPS is being developed at ETH Zürich to improve speed and reliability of online access from anywhere in the world.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy

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HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018 (2017, unknown): “More recently, in silico metabolite modeling has been extended to the prediction of environmental degradation products through the EWAG-BBD System (18).”
Application of Monooxygenases in Dehalogenation, Desulphurization, Denitrification and Hydroxylation of Aromatic Compounds (2010, background): “Currently, two databases namely UMBBD (University of Minnesota Biocatalysis/Biodegradation Database) [100,101] and OXDBase (A Database of Biodegradative Oxygenases) [1] are providing the information about all monooxygenases involved in biodegradation.”