SANCDB: A South African natural compound database

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Hatherley, Rowan ^a   Brown, David K ^a   Musyoka, Thommas M ^a   Penkler, David L ^a   Faya, Ngonidzashe ^a   Lobb, Kevin A ^a   Tastan Bishop, Özlem ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chemical databases; Natural products; South Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934972320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13321-015-0080-8     Document Type: Article

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