About BioColour Library

The BioColour Library is developed in BioColour - Bio-based Dyes and Pigments for Colour Palette.

BioColour

Ecologically and ethically sound production of goods requires also sustainability from colourants and processes. BioColour project develops new methods for bio-based dye and pigment production and applications. Non-toxic and biodegradable colourants enable more sustainable solutions for textiles, coatings and packaging, which is a remarkable step towards bio and circular economy.

See BioColour project at https://biocolour.fi/en/frontpage/

BioColour Library

Currently the BioColour Library dataset includes

• 945 chemical compound fragments, the total number of Chemical fact sheets is less because we also have 128 synonym clusters each containing at least two synonymous names - these synonymous names are shown in the same chemical fact sheet;
• 836 chemical structure drawings supplement the Chemical fact sheets;
• 1208 Taxonomy fact sheets - while we do have 104 synonym clusters each containing at least two synonymous entries, we do not combine multiple taxonomic entries in the same fact sheet due to amount of sections per fact sheet. Out of all these organisms, only 29 plants have macroscopic morphological descriptions and 27 have a photograph of a herbarium sample;
• 153 individual samples from the organisms; and
• 2072 individual analysis results from the samples.

These data come from 399 published scientific articles, conference presentations, books, or theses. The data is described with 1328 terms in English, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, or Chinese varying from colours to morphology to countries to plant parts.

The biocolour palette in BioColour Library comprises of 664 colour measurements. The measurements were either CIELAB colour coordinates or reflectance spectra or both.

Authors

Anja Primetta

Joni Hyttinen

Arvind Negi

Julie Gaitan

Riikka Räisänen

Anonymous contributors

The BioColour project wishes to acknowledge CSC – IT Center for Science, Finland, for computational resources.