The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) is a database containing detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in the human body.It contains or links 1) chemical 2) clinical and 3) molecular biology/biochemistry data.

Prefix

hmdb

Alternative Prefixes

HMDB

Keywords

biochemistry bioinformatics chemical human life science metabolite metabolomics molecular biology omics phenomics proteomics

Links

Homepage @WishartLab

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Human Metabolome Database should match this regular expression:
^HMDB\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

HMDB00001   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Human Metabolome Database should match this regular expression:
^hmdb:HMDB\d+$

Example CURIE

hmdb:HMDB00001

Publications

• 2022 HMDB 5.0: the Human Metabolome Database for 2022
• 2018 HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018
• 2012 HMDB 3.0--The Human Metabolome Database in 2013
• 2007 HMDB: the Human Metabolome Database
• HMDB: a knowledgebase for the human metabolome

In Collection

ChEBI Data Sources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 9 mappings to external registries for this resource with 6 unique external prefixes.

Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE None:HMDB00001 is used to demonstrate the provides available for this resource. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic logic beyond string formatting.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here.