Department of Pharmacy, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City 04510, Mexico.
Biomolecules. 2019 Jan 17;9(1):31. doi: 10.3390/biom9010031.
Compound databases of natural products have a major impact on drug discovery projects and other areas of research. The number of databases in the public domain with compounds with natural origins is increasing. Several countries, Brazil, France, Panama and, recently, Vietnam, have initiatives in place to construct and maintain compound databases that are representative of their diversity. In this proof-of-concept study, we discuss the first version of BIOFACQUIM, a novel compound database with natural products isolated and characterized in Mexico. We discuss its construction, curation, and a complete chemoinformatic characterization of the content and coverage in chemical space. The profile of physicochemical properties, scaffold content, and diversity, as well as structural diversity based on molecular fingerprints is reported. BIOFACQUIM is available for free.
天然产物化合物数据库对药物发现项目和其他研究领域有重大影响。具有天然来源化合物的公共领域数据库的数量正在增加。几个国家,巴西、法国、巴拿马,最近还有越南,都有构建和维护代表其多样性的化合物数据库的举措。在本概念验证研究中,我们讨论了 BIOFACQUIM 的第一个版本,这是一个新型的天然产物化合物数据库,其中包含了在墨西哥分离和表征的天然产物。我们讨论了它的构建、管理,以及对化学空间内容和覆盖范围的完整 chemoinformatic 特征描述。报告了物理化学性质、支架含量和多样性的概况,以及基于分子指纹的结构多样性。BIOFACQUIM 可免费使用。