title: The US National Cancer Institute's natural products repository; origins and utility.
abstract: The US National Cancer Institute's natural products collection program has been running since 1986 and over the years the materials collected and processed have been stored in a repository that as a result of initial planning, has permitted the establishment of a national resource that is now being utilized as a drug discovery tool for any disease of interest to the NIH by researchers world-wide. This paper describes the history of the program.
authors.affiliation: Natural Products Branch, NCI, Fairview Center, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
authors.forename: Erma C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Newman
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D014481:United States
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products