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LANaPD: Towards a Unified Latin America Natural Products Database
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: Received: 1 April 2020 / Approved: 2 April 2020 / Online: 2 April 2020 (04:47:13 CEST)
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Medina-Franco, J.L.* Towards a Unified Latin American Natural Products Database: LANaPD. Future Sci. OA, 2020, FSO597. Medina-Franco, J.L.* Towards a Unified Latin American Natural Products Database: LANaPD. Future Sci. OA, 2020, FSO597.
Abstract
Around the World, the number of compound databases of natural products in the public domain is rising. This is in line with the increasing synergistic combination of natural product research and chemoinformatics. Towards this global endeavor, countries in Latin America are assembling, curating, and analyzing the contents and diversity of natural products available in their geographical regions. In this manuscript we collect and analyze the efforts that countries in Latin America have made so far to build natural product databases. We further encourage the scientific community in particular in Latin America, to continue their efforts to building quality natural product databases and, whenever possible, to make them publicly accessible. It is proposed that all compound collections could be assembled into a unified resource called LANaPD: Latin America Natural Products Database. Opportunities and challenges to build, distribute, and maintain LANaPD are also discussed
Keywords
chemoinformatics; chemical space; database; LANaPD; molecular diversity; drug discovery; natural sources
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Theoretical Chemistry
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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