3DMET is a database collecting three-dimensional structures of natural metabolites.
Now release 2.1 is available!
Three-dimensional structure is an important factor for moleculer recognition. This recognition is always performed in the living cell. As we know, atom chirality is also essential factor of the 3D-structure for molecular recognition. However, many programs of 2D-3D converters can not transform correctly about all of the natural metabolites. Thus, 3DMET (3D-structure database of natural metabolites) has been developped.
This database has not only 3D-structures but also some descriptors. Each structures are searchable by these descriptors. This system also has a simple search system for substructure of the molecule. The search can be perfomed by three levels depending on the accuracy.         -> see "Search Molecules"
The benefits to use 3DMET are: we can view a minimized 3D-structure of the molecule. the 3D-structures are verified. we can refer both of the 2D and 3D structures of a molecule. we can obtain many molecular descriptors for 2D and 3D structures. we can find any molecules related to both of descriptors and substructures. -> see "Documents"	Today's molecule (B01757)
To showing 3D-structures, Jmol is used in the each data page. If you cannot see the structure of the "Today's molecule", you may need to install the Java Runtime Environment.