Journal
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
Volume 57, Issue 9, Pages 2099-2111Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.7b00341
Keywords
Natural product databases; Natural products; Chemical space; Traditional Chinese medicine; Drug discovery; Virtual screening; Plants; Maritime species; Vendors; Purchasable compounds
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- China Scholarship Council [201606010345]
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Natural products from plants, animals, marine life, fungi, bacteria, and other organisms are an important resource for modern drug discovery. Their biological relevance and structural diversity make natural products good starting points for drug design. Natural product-based drug discovery can benefit greatly from computational approaches, which are a valuable precursor or supplementary method to in vitro testing. We present an overview of 25 virtual and 31 physical natural product libraries that are useful for applications in cheminformatics, in particular virtual screening. The overview includes detailed information about each library, the extent of its structural information, and the overlap between different sources of natural products. In terms of chemical structures, there is a large overlap between freely available and commercial virtual natural product libraries. Of particular interest for drug discovery is that at least ten percent of known natural products are readily purchasable and many more natural products and derivatives are available through on-demand sourcing, extraction and synthesis services. Many of the readily purchasable natural products are of small size and hence of relevance to fragment-based drug discovery. There are also an increasing number of macrocyclic natural products and derivatives becoming available for screening.
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