SuperSweet -- Sweetening Agents Database
What you can do:
Find information about natural and artificial sweeteners.
Highlights:
- SuperSweet is a comprehensive collection of carbohydrates, artificial sweeteners and other sweet tasting agents like proteins and peptides.
- Additionally, structural information and properties such as number of calories, therapeutic annotations and a sweetness-index are stored in SuperSweet.
- Currently, the database consists of more than 8000 sweet molecules.
- It provides a modeled 3D structure of the sweet taste receptor and binding poses of the small sweet molecules.
- These binding poses provide hints for the design of new sweeteners.
- A sweetener classification tree and browsing features allow quick requests to be made to the database.
Keywords:
- artificial sweetener
- natural sweetener
- sugar
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This record last updated: 06-14-2011