North East India Medical Plants Database (NEI-MPDB), CSIR-NEIST

NEI-MPDB is an integrated database of extensive list of medicinal plants used in the North Eastern part of India. The database has been carefully constructed by the various techniques, such as literature mining, text mining, and manual curation. The database provides the following resources to users:
1. Medicinal plants list specific to each state of North East India.
2. Medicinal plants and the parts, method of use, and ailments cured.
3. The phytochemical constituents of the medicinal plants.
The obtained list of plants was carefully curated by removing the redundant files and validation of input data. The unique plant list was selected and used for the development of the database. The database comprises of more than 550 plant list in addition to 9000+ phytochemicals. The development of this platform is an effort to help record the dying traditional practices and revive the age old practices. This will further intensify the computational studies on natural product drug discovery with a focus on North East India.

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