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SANCDB: a South African natural compound database.
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Journal of Cheminformatics . 2015, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p1-9. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Background: Natural products (NPs) are important to the drug discovery process. NP research efforts are expanding world-wide and South Africa is no exception to this. While freely-accessible small molecule databases, containing compounds isolated from indigenous sources, have been established in a number of other countries, there is currently no such online database in South Africa. Description: The current research presents a South African natural compound database, named SANCDB. This is a curated and fully-referenced database containing compound information for 600 natural products extracted directly from journal articles, book chapters and theses. There is a web interface to the database, which is simple and easy to use, while allowing for compounds to be searched by a number of different criteria. Being fully referenced, each compound page contains links to the original referenced work from which the information was obtained. Further, the website provides a submission pipeline, allowing researchers to deposit compounds from their own research into the database. Conclusions: SANCDB is currently the only web-based NP database in Africa. It aims to provide a useful resource for the in silico screening of South African NPs for drug discovery purposes. The database is supported by a submission pipeline to allow growth by entries from researchers. As such, we currently present SANCDB the starting point of a platform for a community-driven, curated database tofurther natural products research in South Africa. SANCDB is freely available at https://sancdb.rubi.ru.ac.za/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *NATURAL products
*DATABASES
*PHARMACOLOGY
*MOLECULES
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17582946
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Cheminformatics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 108265179
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-015-0080-8