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Marine Biodiscovery Ireland 2017 Samples

ABSTRACT: Over the last 60 years, marine natural products have had major economic and commercial importance. The development of a National Marine Biodiscovery Laboratory in Ireland (NMBLI), located at the Marine Institute (Oranmore), aims to strengthen Ireland’s capacity as research leaders in marine biotechnology and in particularly marine natural products chemistry. The NMBLI houses an Irish marine repository derived from marine macro-organisms collected in Irish coastal waters. The aim of this project is to collect organisms for the marine repository and identify samples of interest for chemical investigation. Other than the development of the laboratory at the marine institute (Oranmore) with the appropriate facilities and procedure to undertake biodiscovery research, the outcomes of this project are to identify bioactive marine natural products from Irish marine life.

INSTRUMENT(S): Liquid Chromatography MS - negative - reverse phase, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) -, Liquid Chromatography MS - alternating - reverse phase, Liquid Chromatography MS - positive - reverse phase

SUBMITTER: Laurence Kane Jennings Daniel Rodrigues Olivier Thomas Navdeep Kaur

PROVIDER: MTBLS874 | MetaboLights | 2020-02-12

REPOSITORIES: MetaboLights

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