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Natural products are chemical or genetic materials derived from nature.
Because chemical diversity in the natural environment is primarily based upon biological and geographic diversity, researchers travel the world acquiring samples to evaluate in their drug discovery screens. The result is an information system that relieves the burden of documentation at the initial collection stage, and provides extended power for query of the dataset to support follow-on studies. This technology holds potential for greater efficiency in the drug discovery process. Natural products chemicals have played, and will continue to play, a key role in drug discovery. Screening natural products extracts, however, is expensive when compared with synthetic and combinatorial chemical libraries.