MarinLit is the premier database for marine natural products research. The database contains comprehensive bibliographic information for published articles related to all aspects of marine natural products. The unusual genesis of this database, originally designed as an in-house system in the 1980s to fulfil the needs of the University of Canterbury Marine Group, led to features that are unique, or seldom found in other chemistry databases. These features, in addition to complete bibliographic details, include: taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, key words, and for compounds, structures, trivial names, syntheses, biosyntheses, bioactivities and NMR and UV data. In addition to easy access to these indexed data for the individual compounds, MarinLit is a very powerful dereplication tool. There are two aspects to this. The first is biogeography. The availability of collection site and depth data gives spatial answers to all possible search profiles. Additionally, all compounds (23,500) in the database have been analysed by a unique algorithm that populates 44 individually searchable fields with the numbers of each structural feature that can be readily recognised by 1H-NMR spectroscopy. This presentation will describe the unique functionality and searching capability of the database, the editorial process, and demonstrate how it can be used to aid dereplication in a research environment.

MarinLit: Database and essential tools for the marine natural products community

248th National Meeting (2014)

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