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SuperNatural: a searchable database of available natural compounds
Although tremendous effort has been put into synthetic libraries, most drugs on the market are still natural compounds or derivatives thereof. There are encyclopaedias of natural compounds, but the availability of these compounds is often unclear and catalogues from numerous suppliers have to be checked. To overcome these problems we have compiled a database of approximately 50,000 natural comp...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Linacre Quarterly
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0024-3639,2050-8549
DOI: 10.1080/20508549.1999.11878238