In a commendable initiative, world’s first comprehensive open database on curcumin has been created by Indian scientists from Kolkata with an aim to create substitutional innovation strategy and generate public awareness. The Curcumin Resource Database (CRDB) or portal is a collaborative effort of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G), Institute of Advanced Study on Science...

Gaining an insight into Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) database will make one realize the magnitude and significance of Indian traditional medicinal system and heritage. Since primeval time, India has possessed an affluent traditional knowledge, which refers to knowledge inherent in aboriginal communities on diverse ways and means practiced to treat diseases, which have distressed...