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ArticleACS central science2019

The Natural Products Atlas: An Open Access Knowledge Base for Microbial Natural Products Discovery.

Jeffrey A van Santen, Grégoire Jacob, Amrit Leen Singh, Victor Aniebok, Marcy J Balunas, Derek Bunsko, Fausto Carnevale Neto, Laia Castaño-Espriu, Chen Chang, Trevor N Clark and 33 more

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Article in ACS central science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 222 papers.

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222citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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222 citing papers in PubMed, 427 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

43 authors at 10 institutions in 6 countries.

Jeffrey A van SantenDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Grégoire JacobDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Amrit Leen SinghDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Victor AniebokDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 65064, United States.
Marcy J BalunasDivision of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, United States.
Derek BunskoDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Fausto Carnevale NetoDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Laia Castaño-EspriuStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom.
Chen ChangDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Trevor N ClarkDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Jessica L Cleary LittleDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.
David A DelgadilloDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 65064, United States.
Pieter C DorresteinCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, United States.
Katherine R DuncanStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom.
Joseph M EganDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Melissa M GaleyDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.
F P Jake HaecklDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Alex HuaDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Alison H HughesStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom.
Dasha IskakovaDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Aswad KhadilkarDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 65064, United States.
Jung-Ho LeeDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.
Sanghoon LeeDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Nicole LeGrowDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Dennis Y LiuDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Jocelyn M MachoDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 65064, United States.
Catherine S McCaugheyDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Marnix H MedemaBioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AP Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Ram P NeupaneDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States.
Timothy J O'DonnellDepartment of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, United States.
Jasmine S PaulaDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Laura M SanchezDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.
Anam F ShaikhDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390, United States.
Sylvia SoldatouStrathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, United Kingdom.
Barbara R TerlouwBioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AP Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Tuan Anh TranDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.
Mercia ValentineDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Justin J J van der HooftBioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AP Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Duy A VoDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 65064, United States.
Mingxun WangCollaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, United States.
Darryl WilsonDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Katherine E ZinkDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, United States.
Roger G LiningtonDepartment of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 1S6, Canada.
Simon Fraser University · CAUniversity of Illinois Chicago · USUniversity of California, Santa Cruz · USUniversity of Strathclyde · GBWageningen University & Research · NLUniversity of California San Diego · USUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USUniversidade de Ribeirão Preto · BRUniversity of Connecticut · US

Funding

University of California Launching Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training ProgramD43TW009343 · FIC · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CRAIG R COHEN, Sung-Jae Lee · 2017 to 2026
$14.7M
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ IMSD PROGRAMR25GM058903 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ · PI JURICA, MELISSA S · 1999 to 2019
$12.2M
MALDI-TOF MS/IDBac to discover antibiotics from the Great Lakes sponge microbiomeR01GM125943 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI MURPHY, BRIAN THACHER, SANCHEZ, LAURA MARGARET · 2018 to 2021
$2.1M
An Untargeted NMR Metabolomics Platform for Functional Annotation of Natural Product Extracts.F31AT010098 · NCCIH · SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY · PI EGAN, JOSEPH MICHAEL · 2018 to 2020
$93k
Elucidating chemical cues in primary metastasisF31CA236237 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI ZINK, KATHERINE · 2019 to 2019
$41k
FIC NIH HHS D43 TW009343NCCIH NIH HHS F31 AT010098NCI NIH HHS F31 CA236237NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM125943NIGMS NIH HHS R25 GM058903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite rapid evolution in the area of microbial natural products chemistry, there is currently no open access database containing all microbially produced natural product structures. Lack of availability of these data is preventing the implementation of new technologies in natural products science. Specifically, development of new computational strategies for compound characterization and identification are being hampered by the lack of a comprehensive database of known compounds against which to compare experimental data. The creation of an open access, community-maintained database of microbial natural product structures would enable the development of new technologies in natural products discovery and improve the interoperability of existing natural products data resources. However, these data are spread unevenly throughout the historical scientific literature, including both journal articles and international patents. These documents have no standard format, are often not digitized as machine readable text, and are not publicly available. Further, none of these documents have associated structure files (e.g., MOL, InChI, or SMILES), instead containing images of structures. This makes extraction and formatting of relevant natural products data a formidable challenge. Using a combination of manual curation and automated data mining approaches we have created a database of microbial natural products (The Natural Products Atlas, www.npatlas.org) that includes 24 594 compounds and contains referenced data for structure, compound names, source organisms, isolation references, total syntheses, and instances of structural reassignment. This database is accompanied by an interactive web portal that permits searching by structure, substructure, and physical properties. The Web site also provides mechanisms for visualizing natural products chemical space and dashboards for displaying author and discovery timeline data. These interactive tools offer a powerful knowledge base for natural products discovery with a central interface for structure and property-based searching and presents new viewpoints on structural diversity in natural products. The Natural Products Atlas has been developed under FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and is integrated with other emerging natural product databases, including the Minimum Information About a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster (MIBiG) repository, and the Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking (GNPS) platform. It is designed as a community-supported resource to provide a central repository for known natural product structures from microorganisms and is the first comprehensive, open access resource of this type. It is expected that the Natural Products Atlas will enable the development of new natural products discovery modalities and accelerate the process of structural characterization for complex natural products libraries.

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PMID31807684
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