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Chemical space of naturally occurring compounds

  • Fernanda I. Saldívar-González EMAIL logo , B. Angélica Pilón-Jiménez and José L. Medina-Franco EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: December 4, 2018
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Abstract

The chemical space of naturally occurring compounds is vast and diverse. Other than biologics, naturally occurring small molecules include a large variety of compounds covering natural products from different sources such as plant, marine, and fungi, to name a few, and several food chemicals. The systematic exploration of the chemical space of naturally occurring compounds have significant implications in many areas of research including but not limited to drug discovery, nutrition, bio- and chemical diversity analysis. The exploration of the coverage and diversity of the chemical space of compound databases can be carried out in different ways. The approach will largely depend on the criteria to define the chemical space that is commonly selected based on the goals of the study. This chapter discusses major compound databases of natural products and cheminformatics strategies that have been used to characterize the chemical space of natural products. Recent exemplary studies of the chemical space of natural products from different sources and their relationships with other compounds are also discussed. We also present novel chemical descriptors and data mining approaches that are emerging to characterize the chemical space of naturally occurring compounds.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT, Mexico) grant number 282785. FIS-G is thankful to CONACyT for the granted scholarship number 629458. BAP-J is grateful for the support given by the subprogram 127 “Basic Training in Research” of the School of Chemistry, UNAM.

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