TY - JOUR
T1 - SuperScent--a database of flavors and scents
AU - Dunkel, Mathias
AU - Schmidt, Ulrike
AU - Struck, Swantje
AU - Berger, Lena
AU - Gruening, Bjoern
AU - Hossbach, Julia
AU - Jaeger, Ines S
AU - Effmert, Uta
AU - Piechulla, Birgit
AU - Eriksson, Roger
AU - Knudsen, Jette
AU - Preissner, Robert
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Volatiles are efficient mediators of chemical communication acting universally as attractant, repellent or warning signal in all kingdoms of life. Beside this broad impact volatiles have in nature, scents are also widely used in pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries, so the identification of new scents is of great industrial interest. Despite this importance as well as the vast number and diversity of volatile compounds, there is currently no comprehensive public database providing information on structure and chemical classification of volatiles. Therefore, the database SuperScent was established to supply users with detailed information on the variety of odor components. The version of the database presented here comprises the 2D/3D structures of approximately 2100 volatiles and around 9200 synonyms as well as physicochemical properties, commercial availability and references. The volatiles are classified according to their origin, functionality and odorant groups. The information was extracted from the literature and web resources. SuperScent offers several search options, e.g. name, Pubchem ID number, species, functional groups, or molecular weight. SuperScent is available online at: http://bioinformatics.charite.de/superscent.
AB - Volatiles are efficient mediators of chemical communication acting universally as attractant, repellent or warning signal in all kingdoms of life. Beside this broad impact volatiles have in nature, scents are also widely used in pharmaceutical, food and cosmetic industries, so the identification of new scents is of great industrial interest. Despite this importance as well as the vast number and diversity of volatile compounds, there is currently no comprehensive public database providing information on structure and chemical classification of volatiles. Therefore, the database SuperScent was established to supply users with detailed information on the variety of odor components. The version of the database presented here comprises the 2D/3D structures of approximately 2100 volatiles and around 9200 synonyms as well as physicochemical properties, commercial availability and references. The volatiles are classified according to their origin, functionality and odorant groups. The information was extracted from the literature and web resources. SuperScent offers several search options, e.g. name, Pubchem ID number, species, functional groups, or molecular weight. SuperScent is available online at: http://bioinformatics.charite.de/superscent.
U2 - 10.1093/nar/gkn695
DO - 10.1093/nar/gkn695
M3 - Article
C2 - 18931377
SN - 1362-4962
VL - 37
SP - D291-D294
JO - Nucleic Acids Research
JF - Nucleic Acids Research
ER -