Kumari Sangita, Pundhir Sachin, Priya Piyush, Jeena Ganga, Punetha Ankita, Chawla Konika, Firdos Jafaree Zohra, Mondal Subhasish, Yadav Gitanjali
Computational Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi 110067 India.
Computational Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi 110067 India
Database (Oxford). 2014 Dec 22;2014:bau120. doi: 10.1093/database/bau120. Print 2014.
Plant essential oils are complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds, which play indispensable roles in the environment, for the plant itself, as well as for humans. The potential biological information stored in essential oil composition data can provide an insight into the silent language of plants, and the roles of these chemical emissions in defense, communication and pollinator attraction. In order to decipher volatile profile patterns from a global perspective, we have developed the ESSential OIL DataBase (EssOilDB), a continually updated, freely available electronic database designed to provide knowledge resource for plant essential oils, that enables one to address a multitude of queries on volatile profiles of native, invasive, normal or stressed plants, across taxonomic clades, geographical locations and several other biotic and abiotic influences. To our knowledge, EssOilDB is the only database in the public domain providing an opportunity for context based scientific research on volatile patterns in plants. EssOilDB presently contains 123 041 essential oil records spanning a century of published reports on volatile profiles, with data from 92 plant taxonomic families, spread across diverse geographical locations all over the globe. We hope that this huge repository of VOCs will facilitate unraveling of the true significance of volatiles in plants, along with creating potential avenues for industrial applications of essential oils. We also illustrate the use of this database in terpene biology and show how EssOilDB can be used to complement data from computational genomics to gain insights into the diversity and variability of terpenoids in the plant kingdom. EssOilDB would serve as a valuable information resource, for students and researchers in plant biology, in the design and discovery of new odor profiles, as well as for entrepreneurs--the potential for generating consumer specific scents being one of the most attractive and interesting topics in the cosmetic industry. Database URL: http://nipgr.res.in/Essoildb/
植物精油是挥发性有机化合物的复杂混合物，在环境中、对植物自身以及对人类都发挥着不可或缺的作用。存储在精油成分数据中的潜在生物学信息能够洞察植物的无声语言，以及这些化学挥发物在防御、交流和吸引传粉者方面的作用。为了从全球视角解读挥发性成分模式，我们开发了精油数据库（EssOilDB），这是一个不断更新的、免费的电子数据库，旨在为植物精油提供知识资源，使人们能够针对本地、入侵、正常或受胁迫植物的挥发性成分，跨越分类类群、地理位置以及其他一些生物和非生物影响因素，提出众多问题。据我们所知，EssOilDB是公共领域中唯一为基于背景的植物挥发性模式科学研究提供机会的数据库。EssOilDB目前包含123041条精油记录，涵盖了一个世纪以来关于挥发性成分的已发表报告，数据来自92个植物分类科，分布在全球不同地理位置。我们希望这个庞大的挥发性有机化合物库将有助于揭示植物中挥发物的真正意义，同时为精油的工业应用创造潜在途径。我们还举例说明了该数据库在萜类生物学中的应用，并展示了EssOilDB如何用于补充计算基因组学的数据，以深入了解植物王国中萜类化合物的多样性和变异性。EssOilDB将成为植物生物学领域学生和研究人员设计和发现新气味特征的宝贵信息资源，同时也为企业家提供帮助——生成针对消费者特定香味的潜力是化妆品行业最具吸引力和趣味性的话题之一。数据库网址：http://nipgr.res.in/Essoildb/
