Glycolipids chemical informatics

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Rauzah Hashim
Sri Ganesh Janarthanan

Abstract

Information on new chemicals and biologically active compounds increase tremendously through the lntemet database. Our current project is to build a comprehensive database on Malaysian Natural Product that has vast potentials in medicinal and commercials values. Building a database means development of all the necessary entities to define suitable properties for the Natural Product database. We have used and object-oriented database engine for this information system. From this system we shall also develop a glycolipid chemical information system. Glycolipid forms a class of carbohydrate liquid crystals, commonly found in nature and living cells. Many can be also be synthesized chemically and enzymatically. Their liquid crystalline behavior is mostly unknown; hence their potential as specialty fine chemicals is under exploited. The study of liquid crystal properties of glycolipid is essential both fundamentally and more importantly for their applications.

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Hashim, R., & Janarthanan, S. G. (2001). Glycolipids chemical informatics. Malaysian Journal of Science, 20(1), 113–120. Retrieved from http://ijie.um.edu.my/index.php/MJS/article/view/8788
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