Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review
Diet is considered to be a significant factor in cancer prevention and therapy. Many food components reveal anticancer activity. The increasing number of experiments concerning the anticancer potential of chemical compounds, including food components, is a challenge for data searching. Specialized d...
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| description | Diet is considered to be a significant factor in cancer prevention and therapy. Many food components reveal anticancer activity. The increasing number of experiments concerning the anticancer potential of chemical compounds, including food components, is a challenge for data searching. Specialized databases provide an opportunity to overcome this problem. Data concerning the anticancer activity of chemical compounds may be found in general databases of chemical compounds and databases of drugs, including specialized resources concerning anticancer compounds, databases of food components, and databases of individual groups of compounds, such as polyphenols or peptides. This brief review summarizes the state of knowledge of chemical databases containing information concerning natural anticancer compounds (e.g., from food). Additionally, the information about text- and structure-based search options and links between particular internet resources is provided in this paper. Examples of the application of databases in food and nutrition sciences are also presented with special attention to compounds that are interesting from the point of view of dietary cancer prevention. Simple examples of potential database search possibilities are also discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1062efe51db646bf9ec99f98d91822ac2022-12-21T19:43:47ZengMDPI AGMolecules1420-30492019-02-0124478910.3390/molecules24040789molecules24040789Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief ReviewPiotr Minkiewicz0Marta Turło1Anna Iwaniak2Małgorzata Darewicz3University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Chair of Food Biochemistry, Plac Cieszyński 1, 10-726 Olsztyn-Kortowo, PolandUniversity of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Chair of Food Biochemistry, Plac Cieszyński 1, 10-726 Olsztyn-Kortowo, PolandUniversity of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Chair of Food Biochemistry, Plac Cieszyński 1, 10-726 Olsztyn-Kortowo, PolandUniversity of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Chair of Food Biochemistry, Plac Cieszyński 1, 10-726 Olsztyn-Kortowo, PolandDiet is considered to be a significant factor in cancer prevention and therapy. Many food components reveal anticancer activity. The increasing number of experiments concerning the anticancer potential of chemical compounds, including food components, is a challenge for data searching. Specialized databases provide an opportunity to overcome this problem. Data concerning the anticancer activity of chemical compounds may be found in general databases of chemical compounds and databases of drugs, including specialized resources concerning anticancer compounds, databases of food components, and databases of individual groups of compounds, such as polyphenols or peptides. This brief review summarizes the state of knowledge of chemical databases containing information concerning natural anticancer compounds (e.g., from food). Additionally, the information about text- and structure-based search options and links between particular internet resources is provided in this paper. Examples of the application of databases in food and nutrition sciences are also presented with special attention to compounds that are interesting from the point of view of dietary cancer prevention. Simple examples of potential database search possibilities are also discussed.https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/4/789cancerneoplasmnatural compoundsfood componentsdatabaseschemical information |
| spellingShingle | Piotr Minkiewicz Marta Turło Anna Iwaniak Małgorzata Darewicz Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review Molecules cancer neoplasm natural compounds food components databases chemical information |
| title | Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review |
| title_full | Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review |
| title_fullStr | Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review |
| title_short | Free Accessible Databases as a Source of Information about Food Components and Other Compounds with Anticancer Activity–Brief Review |
| title_sort | free accessible databases as a source of information about food components and other compounds with anticancer activity brief review |
| topic | cancer neoplasm natural compounds food components databases chemical information |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/24/4/789 |
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