| Chemical biology approach enables us to understand the complex biological systems,using small molecules such as a specific activator or inhibitor of protein, a hormone-likeinducer, or a neurotransmitter etc. When such approach is performed genome-widely, that research is especially called "chemical genomics". We are planning to make a new start of chemical genomics using one of chordate model animal, ascidian. As a first step, we constructed a database called ACBD (Ascidians Chemical Biology Database).

First, we reviewed and annotated past articles which describe the uses of small chemicals in the field of ascidians biology. In ACBD, chemical information and effects on ascidian are manually extracted... |
