Information Gathering and Data Bases That Are Pertinent to the Development of Plant-derived Drugs
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An important element of drug development using plants is the accumulation and analysis of pertinent research data and purported ethnomedical (folkloric) uses for plants. Due to the quantity of information frequently available in the literature and its appearance over many years from worldwide sources, this information is best stored and analyzed by computers, There are 10 automated data bases that provide data on plant sciences, agriculture, and the chemistry and pharmacology of natural products, One of these data bases, the Natural Products Alert (NAPRALERT) file, affords both bibliographic retrieval and textual and numeric data relevant to drug development,
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