KNApSAcK:Secondary metabolite database related between metabolites and species

摘要

Many metabolites have been identified from plants,microbes and other organisms.Secondary metabolites are highly species specific and play a role for the survival of the producing organism within its natural habitat.The number of metabolites present in the plant kingdom is estimated to exceed 100,000-an enormous number indicating a large scale of structured diversity of compounds.Several databases have been made by collecting metabolite information of various organisms,and provide some chemical information and biological pathways on metabolites,however,they don't provide the relationships between metabolites and their biological origins.