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Our new website started at http://metabolomics.jp/ .  It contains more information than the Flavonoid Viewer and we will discontinue the service of Flavonoid Viewer in a future.  Please check the new site and feedback your comments to metabolome AT cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp !

About the Flavonoid Viewer

1. Before accessing the Viewer

The Viewer is written in Java and runs on your web browser. Please visit http://java.sun.com/ to install the latest Java component on your machine. (Java Version 1.5 or higher is required.) It works both on Windows and Mac platform. Since the Viewer contains many web links to plant images, please enable pop-up windows in your browser setting.

2. How to use the Viewer

Unfortunately the manual is available only in Japanese.  We will prepare English version soon.

Users' manual… manual for how to use search functions

Lecture material … course material used in the Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (2007/3/28-30)

3. Click HERE to try the viewer

Classification of Flavonoid

All flavonoids --> sorted by mass　　sorted by formula
The table below is the structural classification by backbone type.

Name	Molecular Structure	Example
FL1 Chalcone (right) Dihydrochalcone Aurone		yellow pigment in safflower
FL2 Flavanone		skin of prune, oranges
FL3 Flavone		parsley, celery
FL4 Dihydroflavonol		grape skin
FL5 Flavonol		onion, apple, tea
FL6 Flavan		apple, tea, pine bark
FL7 Anthocyanin		grape, blueberry
FLI Isoflavonoid		beans
FLN Neoflavonoid
FLO Oligoflavonoid and other complex flavonoid	Various structures