Databases

The core facility “Databases” was established to strengthen the national and international visibility and significance of the Institute in both scientific and non-scientific circles.

The overarching goal of this facility is to develop and provide suitable communication structures to accelerate the transfer of scientific data generated and collected at Leibniz-LSB@TUM into practice, thereby promoting translational food research. This includes industrial, scientific, and social applications.

The department develops, bundles, and networks the Institute's various databases. These include the Souci-Fachmann-Kraut nutritional tables, the open access “Leibniz-LSB@TUM Odorant Database”, the open access “Food Systems Biology Database”, and the open access “WaterTOP-Database”.

As part of the DFG project (No. 468601105), the open access database “Bitter Peptide Space (BPS) 1000” was also developed. It contains experimentally verified bitter and non-bitter-tasting peptides and, where known, their bitterness thresholds and information on the bitter taste receptors activated by the peptides.

In addition, Leibniz-LSB@TUM research contributes to the NOSE-OE (Network of Signaling Events in the Olfactory Epithelium) database. This is a joint project between the research groups led by Prof. Dr. Antonella Di Pizio (Leibniz-LSB@TUM), Prof. Dr. Olaf Wolkenhauer (Leibniz-LSB@TUM), and Dr. Federica Genovese (Monell, USA). The aim of the database is to understand the complex cell-cell communication and signaling pathways that control signaling processes in the olfactory epithelium (OE). Detailed molecular maps depicting the functional landscape of the most important cell types and compartments of the OE have been created as graphs and integrated into Minerva, an interactive, searchable web platform.