Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on October 22, 2007
Bioinformatics 2007 23(23):3256-3257; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm516
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NAPROC-13: a database for the dereplication of natural product mixtures in bioassay-guided protocols


1Departamento de Química Farmacéutica, Facultad de Farmacia, Campus M. Unamuno, 37007 Salamanca and 2Departamento de Informática y Automática, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Motivation: Although natural products represent a reservoir of molecular diversity, the process of isolating and identifying active compounds is a bottleneck in drug discovery programs. The rapid isolation and identification of the bioactive component(s) of natural product mixtures during the bioassay-guided fractionation have become crucial factors in the competition with chemical compound libraries and combinatorial synthetic efforts. In this respect, the use of spectral databases in identification processes is indispensable.
Results: We have developed a database containing 13C spectral information of over 6000 natural compounds, which allows for fast identifications of known compounds present in the crude extracts and provides insight into the structural elucidation of unknown compounds.
Availability: http://c13.usal.es
Contact: theron{at}usal.es
Associate Editor: Jonathan Wren
The authors wish it to be known that in their opinion, the first two authors should be regarded as joint First Authors.
Received on August 5, 2007; revised on October 2, 2007; accepted on October 8, 2007