Metabolomics Tools for Marine Natural Product Discovery
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 January 2022) | Viewed by 607
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioinformatics; data mining; dereplication/annotation; induction strategies; metabolomics; fungal natural products
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Interests: isolation, structure and assessment of marine substances with pharmacological and therapeutic bioactivity; marine toxinology; marine fungi; metabolomics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the discovery process of Natural Products (NPs) has evolved to rely more on analytical chemistry due to its increased accuracy in detecting molecules, even at trace amount. Nowadays, comparative high resolution and sensitive metabolite profiling techniques are increasingly being used at every step of the NP discovery process. For this, either mass spectrometry or NMR analyses are combined or not with chemometrics. Marine Natural Product (MNP) researchers have been pioneers in the use of such approaches.
However, the big data often generated by such metabolomics approach require new developments to allow for a comprehensive and in-depth view of marine chemical diversity. Thus, the next frontier in MNP discovery relies on overcoming such data analysis challenges by proposing novel tools. In addition, new applications of currently employed techniques must emerge for the discovery of biologically and ecologically relevant marine molecules.
This Special Issue of Marine Drugs focusses on gathering articles dealing with:
- Novel metabolomics strategies (analytical and/or data mining approaches) that are able to deal with marine chemical diversity;
- Examples of the use of metabolomics and de novo dereplication strategies in MNP discovery context.
Dr. Samuel Bertrand
Prof. Dr. Olivier Grovel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Chemical profiling
- Data analysis
- Data fusion
- Dereplication
- Mass spectrometry
- Metabolomics
- NMR
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