title: [Status of libraries and databases for natural products at abroad].
abstract: For natural products are one of the important sources for drug discovery, libraries and databases of natural products are significant for the development and research of natural products. At present, most of compound libraries at abroad are synthetic or combinatorial synthetic molecules, resulting to access natural products difficult; for information of natural products are scattered with different standards, it is difficult to construct convenient, comprehensive and large-scale databases for natural products. This paper reviewed the status of current accessing libraries and databases for natural products at abroad and provided some important information for the development of libraries and database for natural products.
authors.forename: Li-Mei
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Ning-Hua
authors.initials: NH
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001688:Biological Products / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000494:pharmacology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products