Herbal Medicine/Phytotherapy Databases

Protein Databases

Proteins are sources of many peptides with diverse biological activity. Some of them are considered as valuable components of foods and drug targets with desired and designed biological activity. We are now entering an era rich in biological data in which the field of bioinformatics is poised to exploit this information in increasingly powerful ways. There are currently many databases all over ...

Editorial: A Study of Disaster Databases

The global investigation of disasters in recent years shows that their number has increased annually and the number of affected people and costs of disasters are increasing

Synthetic Cannabinoids Herbal Incense / Herbal Blends

Relational Databases Query Optimization using Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm

Optimizing the database queries is one of hard research problems. Exhaustive search techniques like dynamic programming is suitable for queries with a few relations, but by increasing the number of relations in query, much use of memory and processing is needed, and the use of these methods is not suitable, so we have to use random and evolutionary methods. The use of evolutionary methods, beca...

Herbal Synergy

An interesting exploration in the field of phytotherapy, is in the area of ‘synergy’ which was advanced in a landmark paper by Williamson (2001) and further highlighted by Ulrich-Merzenich et al. (2007). The concept relates to the growing evidence that plant constituents may provide a ‘super additive’ biological effect when combined, as opposed to being just the sum of their individual parts (e...