The Serum Metabolome database is a free web database about small molecule
metabolites found in human
serum
Serum may refer to:
*Serum (blood), plasma from which the clotting proteins have been removed
**Antiserum, blood serum with specific antibodies for passive immunity
* Serous fluid, any clear bodily fluid
* Truth serum, a drug that is likely to mak ...
and their concentration values. The database includes chemical data, clinical data and molecular/biochemistry data from literature and experiment. This database also references many other databases, such as
KEGG,
PubChem,
MetaCyc
The MetaCyc database is one of the largest metabolic pathways and enzymes databases currently available. The data in the database is manually curated from the scientific literature, and covers all domains of life. MetaCyc has extensive information ...
,
ChEBI,
PDB,
Swiss-Prot
UniProt is a freely accessible database of protein sequence and functional information, many entries being derived from genome sequencing projects. It contains a large amount of information about the biological function of proteins derived from ...
,
GenBank, and Human Metabolome Database (
HMDB).
The Serum Metabolome database is maintained by
David S. Wishart
David S. Wishart (born December 7, 1961) is a Canadian researcher and a Distinguished professor, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Wi ...
.
The Serum Metabolome database protocol is available via its website.
[Psychogios N, Hau DD, Peng J, Guo AC, Mandal R, Bouatra S, Sinelnikov I, Krishnamurthy R, Eisner R, Gautam B, Young N, Xia J, Knox C, Dong E, Huang P, Hollander Z, Pedersen TL, Smith SR, Bamforth F, Greiner R, McManus B, Newman JW, Goodfriend T, Wishart DS]
The human serum metabolome
PLoS One. 2011 Feb 16;6(2):e16957.
References
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External links
Official website
Chemical databases
Biological databases
Metabolomic databases