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Published in final edited form as: Chem Rev. 2013 Apr 10;113(4):2733–2811. doi: 10.1021/cr300354g

Table 8.

Metabolomic databases relevant to organelle analysis.

Database Focus Features Website Reference
Library and Database of Toxic Compounds Toxicological substances Analysis done with LC-QTOF-MS, positive and negative ESI, high accuracy MS; contains over 7500 toxicology-relevant analytes; some standards spiked into either blood or/and urine matrix NA Broecker, 2011307
Manchester Metabolomics Database Serum, urine, yeast intracellular extracts, yeast, placental tissue; overlap with other databases Accurate ESI-MS spectra, theoretical isotope abundance data, and ion types; 1,065 commercially available compound spectra performed with UPLC-MS and GC-MS; overlap with HMDB, KEGG, LIPID Maps, BioCyc, and DrugBank; provides a total of 42,687 compounds www.dbkgroup.org/MMD/ Brown 2009308
KEGG Database Encyclopedia of genes and genomics Provide relevant information on cells, organisms, and organelles; connects gene catalogs to cell function, organism status, and ecosystem; is publically available www.genome.jp/kegg/ Kanehisa, 2011309
FiehnLib GC-MS Volatile metabolites below 550 Da Contains GC-MS and some additional LC-MS/MS; it has some overlap with the BioMeta/KEGG database and the Golm Metabolite Database; supports BinBase http://fiehnlab.ucdavis.edu/projects/FiehnLib/ Kind, 2009310
Golm Metabolite Database Biological active metabolites GC-MS detection, MS spectra and chromatograms http://gmd.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/ Kopka, 2004311
KNApSAcK Plant secondary metabolites Chromatogram peak identification, over 49,000 specie-metabolite relations with over 24,000 metabolites; is publically available http://kanaya.naist.jp/KNApSAcK/ Oikawa, 2006312
BinBase MS Database Volatile compounds GC-TOF-MS; contains over 1500 database entries for compounds from 18 species or 3435 samples; links to chemical and biochemical databases; web queries are possible http://binbase.sourceforge.net Skogerson, 2011313
Yeast Metabolome Database Yeast small molecules Contains experimental intracellular and extracellular metabolites detected from both MS and NMR; contains more than 2000 metabolites collected from a literature review of yeast metabolites; mass spectrometry data from over 995 different genes/proteins. http://www.ymdb.ca/ Jewison, 2012314
Plant Metabolome Database Plant secondary metabolites of plants Contains primary and secondary metabolites specific to plants; contains more than 1,000 metabolites with three-dimensional structures; chemical information overlap with KEGG and PubChem http://www.sastra.edu/scbt/pmdb/ Udayakumar, 2012315
Chemical Entities of Biological Interest Small chemical compounds, biological and synthetic Merger of the IntEnz, Kegg, PDBeChem, and ChEMBL databases; contains mass, formulas, structures, and database links; publically available http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/ Degtyarenko, 2008316
Human Metabolome Database Human metabolites, associated enzymes and transporters, and disease-related properties Contains metabolites, enzyme responsible for production of metabolites; contains over 6800 entries and 3800 lipids, information pathway, abundance, and disease related properties as well as spectral databases, NMR, LC-MS, and GC-MS data http://www.hmdb.ca/ Wishart, 2009317
National Institute of Standards and Technology Identify species based on chemical formula Contains compounds with most prominently electron ionization mass spectrometry data; properties such as thermodynamic data, IR spectrum, mass spectrum, UV/Vis spectrum, and vibrational and electronic energy levels http://www.nis t.gov/pml/data/index.cfm Wagner, 2003318
METLINE Endogenous metabolites Freely accessible database containing high resolution Fourier transform mass spectrometry, tandem mass spectrometry, and LC/MS data http://metlin.scripps.edu/ Smith, 2005319
MASSBANK Analytes including endogenous metabolites Contains mass spectral data for many types of compounds; contains primary and secondary metabolites http://www.massbank.jp/?lang=en Horai, 2010320
Database of Bacterial Lipoproteins Bacterial lipoproteins Contains 278 lipoproteins and predicted lipoproteins from bacterial genomes; 773 different lipoproteins from the Swiss-Prot database were identified and grouped into 278 clusters containing protein orthologs; contains information for predicting the molecular function of the lipoprotein. NA Babu, 2006321
LIPIDMaps Biologically relevant lipids Contains lipid-associated protein sequences, annotations, and genes associated with lipids; proteins are also classified to associate with the different LIPIDMaps; contains structures, studies from core laboratories, and simulations for appropriate lipids; structures can be searched based on name or structure. http://www.lipidmaps.org/data/databases.html Sud, 2007322
DrugBank Drug data and drug information Contains over 4,100 drugs and 14,000 drug targets; contains drug properties and links to other databases such as PubMed and KEGG http://www.drugbank.ca/ Wishart, 2006323