MPB 3.1: A Useful Medicinal Plants Database of Bangladesh

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MPB 3.1: A Useful Medicinal Plants Database of Bangladesh

Md. Salah Uddin , Sang Woo Lee

Corresponding Author : Md. Salah Uddin

Department of Biology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.

Email ID : sohailmsu@gmail.com

Received : 2020-06-04 Accepted : 2020-07-18 Published : 2020-07-18

Abstract : Bangladesh is rich with medicinal plants that have been used for centuries in traditional medicine to treat human disease. A comprehensive online database of the medicinal plants in Bangladesh will enable computational approaches towards natural product-based drug discovery. MPB 3.1, a manually curated database of 1208 species of medicinal plants in Bangladesh. This database provides the information respectively scientific name, family, growth habit, used plant parts, and medicinal uses of plants in Bangladesh. Database: https://www.natureinfo.com.bd/mpb

Keywords : Medicinal plants, Database, Therapeutic uses, Bangladesh.

Citation : Md. Salah Uddin et al. (2020). MPB 3.1: A Useful Medicinal Plants Database of Bangladesh, J. of Advancement in Medical and Life Sciences. V8I1.02. DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.3950619

Copyright : © 2020 Md. Salah Uddin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Reviewer Comments : #1 Reviewer:
This article is very much appreciable for making a medicinal plant database of Bangladesh. Now a days, online base database utilities are needless to mention. There are different sorts of users of that kind of database. So, it is important whenever creating such a database. So, it is important whenever creating such kind of database to fulfill the requirement of every sort of end users or at least highest portion of the users.
Yours database is a good one. You organize the data in good manner. It seems very much user friendly. In your database you may give a version name as like as MPB-1, which indicates you will upgrade it time to time. It is more important in a database to give reference especially in medicinal uses but it is totally absent in your`s. In your article you cited marinelli ( 2005), which is not consistent with your reference citation criteria and another one is you cited reference as 10,11,12,1,13,14,15,16,17 it should be 1, 10-17, Overall it is a good article to publish.

Abdullah-Al-Masud Mazumder
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Author has made all the correction given by the reviewer and got final recommendation for the publication.