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ArticleACS chemical biology2018

NCI Program for Natural Product Discovery: A Publicly-Accessible Library of Natural Product Fractions for High-Throughput Screening.

Christopher C Thornburg, John R Britt, Jason R Evans, Rhone K Akee, James A Whitt, Spencer K Trinh, Matthew J Harris, Jerell R Thompson, Teresa L Ewing, Suzanne M Shipley and 5 more

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers.

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92citing papers in PubMed
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

92 citing papers in PubMed, 153 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Christopher C ThornburgNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4657-6895
John R BrittNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Jason R EvansData Management Services, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Rhone K AkeeNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
James A WhittNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Spencer K TrinhNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Matthew J HarrisNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Jerell R ThompsonNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Teresa L EwingNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Suzanne M ShipleyNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Paul G GrothausNatural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
David J NewmanNatural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Joel P SchneiderChemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.
Tanja GrkovicNatural Products Support Group, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. , Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6537-3997
Barry R O'KeefeNatural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis , National Cancer Institute , Frederick , Maryland 21702-1201 , United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0772-4856
Leidos (United States) · USNational Cancer Institute · USFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · USTarget (United States) · US

Funding

Molecular Targets ProgramZICBC010469 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI OKEEFE, BARRY · 2009 to 2018
$31.4M
Development of antibacterial agents and materialsZIABC011314 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI SCHNEIDER, JOEL · 2010 to 2025
$8.9M
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CIntramural NIH HHS ZIC BC010469NCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001E
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The US National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Natural Product Repository is one of the world's largest, most diverse collections of natural products containing over 230,000 unique extracts derived from plant, marine, and microbial organisms that have been collected from biodiverse regions throughout the world. Importantly, this national resource is available to the research community for the screening of extracts and the isolation of bioactive natural products. However, despite the success of natural products in drug discovery, compatibility issues that make extracts challenging for liquid handling systems, extended timelines that complicate natural product-based drug discovery efforts and the presence of pan-assay interfering compounds have reduced enthusiasm for the high-throughput screening (HTS) of crude natural product extract libraries in targeted assay systems. To address these limitations, the NCI Program for Natural Product Discovery (NPNPD), a newly launched, national program to advance natural product discovery technologies and facilitate the discovery of structurally defined, validated lead molecules ready for translation will create a prefractionated library from over 125,000 natural product extracts with the aim of producing a publicly-accessible, HTS-amenable library of >1,000,000 fractions. This library, representing perhaps the largest accumulation of natural-product based fractions in the world, will be made available free of charge in 384-well plates for screening against all disease states in an effort to reinvigorate natural product-based drug discovery.

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AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsBiological ProductsDrug DiscoveryDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansNational Cancer Institute (U.S.)NeoplasmsUnited StatesWorkflowAntineoplastic AgentsBiological Products

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PMID29812901
PMCPMC8130845
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