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| Title |
SANCDB: a South African natural compound database
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Cheminformatics, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13321-015-0080-8 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rowan Hatherley, David K Brown, Thommas M Musyoka, David L Penkler, Ngonidzashe Faya, Kevin A Lobb, Özlem Tastan Bishop |
| Abstract |
Natural products (NPs) are important to the drug discovery process. NP research efforts are expanding world-wide and South Africa is no exception to this. While freely-accessible small molecule databases, containing compounds isolated from indigenous sources, have been established in a number of other countries, there is currently no such online database in South Africa. The current research presents a South African natural compound database, named SANCDB. This is a curated and fully-referenced database containing compound information for 600 natural products extracted directly from journal articles, book chapters and theses. There is a web interface to the database, which is simple and easy to use, while allowing for compounds to be searched by a number of different criteria. Being fully referenced, each compound page contains links to the original referenced work from which the information was obtained. Further, the website provides a submission pipeline, allowing researchers to deposit compounds from their own research into the database. SANCDB is currently the only web-based NP database in Africa. It aims to provide a useful resource for the in silico screening of South African NPs for drug discovery purposes. The database is supported by a submission pipeline to allow growth by entries from researchers. As such, we currently present SANCDB the starting point of a platform for a community-driven, curated database to further natural products research in South Africa. SANCDB is freely available at https://sancdb.rubi.ru.ac.za/. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 67% |
| Japan | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 33% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 148 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Cameroon | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 141 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 29 | 20% |
| Researcher | 19 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 16 | 11% |
| Unknown | 26 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 41 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 27 | 18% |
| Chemistry | 19 | 13% |
| Computer Science | 9 | 6% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 12 | 8% |
| Unknown | 32 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 August 2015.
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