The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research.

ABSTRACT: Contemporary bioinformatic and chemoinformatic capabilities hold promise to reshape knowledge management, analysis and interpretation of data in natural products research. Currently, reliance on a disparate set of non-standardized, insular, and specialized databases presents a series of challenges for data access, both within the discipline and for integration and interoperability between related fields. The fundamental elements of exchange are referenced structure-organism pairs that establish relationships between distinct molecular structures and the living organisms from which they were identified. Consolidating and sharing such information via an open platform has strong transformative potential for natural products research and beyond. This is the ultimate goal of the newly establish

SUBMITTER: Rutz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9135406 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature