Marine Bioactive Natural Product Studies in Asia

Dear Colleagues,

Searching for marine bioactive natural products is an important task in natural product chemistry, medicinal chemistry or for drug discovery which has recently been developing progressively worldwide. This is particularly of relevance in Asia where scientists have the possibility of finding structurally unique or biologically important metabolites as they are surrounded by the sea. This Special Issue in Marine Drugs highlights the isolation and structural determination of bioactive natural products from marine animals, plants, or marine derived microorganisms collected from the Asian seas.

As the Guest Editor, I encourage marine natural products scientists from all over Asia to submit their latest research findings to show the strength of their knowledge in this field, and hope these contributions will assist in drug discoveries of the future.

Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Usami
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.