Marcy J. Balunas
University of Connecticut
58 Papers
143 Citations
Marcy J. Balunas is an academic researcher from University of Connecticut. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Chemistry. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 51 publications. Previous affiliations of Marcy J. Balunas include Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute & University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Papers
Drug discovery from medicinal plants.
TL;DR: Several compounds from tropical rainforest plant species with potential anticancer activity have been identified and several compounds, mainly from edible plant species or plants used as dietary supplements, that may act as chemopreventive agents are isolated.
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Drug discovery from natural sources.
TL;DR: These approved substances, representative of very wide chemical diversity, together with several other natural products or their analogs undergoing clinical trials, continue to demonstrate the importance of compounds from natural sources in modern drug discovery efforts.
Drug Discovery From Natural Sources
Young-Won Chin,Marcy J. Balunas,Hee Byung Chai,A. Douglas Kinghorn +3 more
- 01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: These approved substances, representative of very wide chemical diversity, together with several other natural products or their analogs undergoing clinical trials, continue to demonstrate the importance of compounds from natural sources in modern drug discovery efforts.
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The Natural Products Atlas: An Open Access Knowledge Base for Microbial Natural Products Discovery.
Jeffrey A. van Santen,Gregoire Jacob,Amrit Leen Singh,Victor Aniebok,Marcy J. Balunas,Derek Bunsko,Fausto Carnevale Neto,Fausto Carnevale Neto,Fausto Carnevale Neto,Laia Castano-Espriu,Chen Chang,Trevor N. Clark,Jessica C. Little,David A. Delgadillo,Pieter C. Dorrestein,Katherine R. Duncan,Joseph M. Egan,Melissa M. Galey,F. P. Jake Haeckl,Alex Hua,Alison H. Hughes,Dasha Iskakova,Aswad S Khadilkar,Jung-Ho Lee,Sanghoon Lee,Nicole LeGrow,Dennis Y. Liu,Jocelyn Macho,Catherine McCaughey,Marnix H. Medema,Ram P. Neupane,Timothy J. O’Donnell,Jasmine S. Paula,Laura M. Sanchez,Anam F. Shaikh,Sylvia Soldatou,Barbara R. Terlouw,Tuan Anh Tran,Tuan Anh Tran,Mercia C. Valentine,Justin J. J. van der Hooft,Duy A. Vo,Mingxun Wang,Darryl Wilson,Katherine E. Zink,Roger G. Linington +45 more
TL;DR: The Natural Products Atlas is designed as a community-supported resource to provide a central repository for known natural product structures from microorganisms and is the first comprehensive, open access resource of this type.
Propagating annotations of molecular networks using in silico fragmentation.
Ricardo Silva,Ricardo Silva,Mingxun Wang,Louis-Félix Nothias,Justin J. J. van der Hooft,Justin J. J. van der Hooft,Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez,Evan Fox,Marcy J. Balunas,Jonathan L. Klassen,Norberto Peporine Lopes,Pieter C. Dorrestein +11 more
TL;DR: This work shows how molecular networking can be used to improve the accuracy of in silico predictions through propagation of structural annotations, even when there is no match to a MS/MS spectrum in spectral libraries.