Chemical Diversity in Nature Produces Potent Drugs of Various Ailments; Natural Products
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Statistical reanalysis of natural products reveals increasing chemical diversity.
In their retrospective analysis of natural product (NP) discovery since the 1940s, Pye et al. (1) observe a gradual decline in the proportion of NPs discovered each year with low similarity to previously known compounds [defined by maximum Tanimoto coefficient (Tc) < 0.4]. Additionally, the authors report that the median maximum Tc for all NPs discovered in a given year has plateaued since the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2321-9653
DOI: 10.22214/ijraset.2017.9150