| Description |
EDCs DataBank is the first database of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) with three-dimensional structures available for virtual screening. EDCs are a diverse group of compounds that may affect the endocrine system and that have been epidemiologically associated with many adverse health effects in humans. This database was built on MySQL using the list of chemicals published in The EU list of potential endocrine disruptors and TEDXList with three-dimensional structures available on PubChem; as well as a wide variety of information from different databases and text mining tools such as PubMed, Fable, ToxCast and LigerCat; which made this database useful for almost any kind of research regarding EDCs. The web platform of EDCs DataBank was developed using HTML, CSS and PHP languages, which let the use of dynamic contents in a graphic environment . |