Escherichia coli is perhaps the best studied bacterium on earth and has served as the "model microbe" in microbiology research for more than 60 years.
ECMDB is part of a suite of organism-specific metabolomics databases that includes DrugBank, HMDB, YMDB and SMPDB.
Many data fields are hyperlinked to other databases (KEGG, PubChem, MetaCyc, ChEBI, PDB, UniProt, and GenBank).
The ECMDB database offers a number of text, sequence, spectral, chemical structure and relational query searches.
The ECMDB employs a software tool called "Elastic Search" that allows misspellings and fuzzy text matching.
The ECMB has 7 selectable tabs located at the top of every page including: 1) Home; 2) Browse; 3) Search; 4) About; 5) Help; 6) Downloads and 7) Contact Us.
Clicking on an ECMDB MetaboCard or ProteinCard button will bring up the full data content for the corresponding metabolite (Fig.
The ECMDB also contains a large number of statistical tables, with detailed information about not only its content but also about E. coli, in general.