Plastics have been used in a wide
range of applications and are involved in every aspect of our lives for over a
century since their invention. Intensive and low repeatable use, poor
recycling, and unexpected resistance of plastics to environmental and microbial
action results in the accumulation of large amounts of waste in marine and
terrestrial environments, posing a significant risk to human and animal life.
Because of the metabolic diversity of the Pseudomonas genus, which is
particularly interested in degrading and metabolizing synthetic plastics which
are isolates from environmental matrices have been shown to degrade
polypropylene, polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polyurethane,
polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene glycol, polyvinyl alcohol, and
polyethylene succinate with varying degrees of efficiency. According to the
vast and rapid growth of biodegrading research data, which cannot be handled
without computational databases, and is becoming an essential part of modern
biology. Anyhow, database research is
always the first step in every analysis, the use of several databases also
helps researchers to understand the evolution, structure, and function of
biodegrading-microorganisms. Although, a well comprehensive and large-scale
database is needed for further research. Therefore, we have a collection of 965
total and
458
unique latest microorganisms, 440 plastics,
852
total and 212
unique enzymes, and have checked the correlation that has been raised from
physical, chemical, and biological information of plastic biodegradations.
Further, The PBDB can be explored by 2 methods, i.e., one plastic can be
browsed by typing the name in the given search bar, while all Category can be
browsed by clicking on the name of the category. Moreover, the computational
platform (PHP, HTML, CSS, and MySQL) is used to build PBDB for the scientific
community which can be freely search over here.