Besides the classic studies connected to pharmacological activities, new developments challenge natural products chemists, such as metabolomics, the large-scale phytochemical analysis in the functional genomics era.
Siddiqui was the first scientist to bring the anthelmintic, antifungal, antibacterial, and antiviral constituents of the Neem tree to the attention of natural products chemists.
will be performed by senior natural products chemists.
Thus, the team of TMDB includes eight tea biochemists and natural products chemists, two NMR specialists, and three bioinformticians with dual training in chemistry and computer science.
The TMDB is designed to address the broad needs of tea biochemists, natural products chemists, nutritionists, and members of tea related research community.
Natural products chemists first analyze the structure of a biomolecule to determine the arrangement of its constituent atoms, and then synthesize exactly the same biomolecule from scratch.
Most of the collecting compounds in the current TMDB version 1.0 are known compounds thanks to the work done by thousands of tea biochemists, natural products chemists, and metabolic biochemists over the last 60 years.
Metabolomic requires from a natural product chemist brilliant knowledge of modern analytical techniques and chemometry and close collaboration with biochemists and biologists.
The NCI Plant Programme headed by Jonathan Hartwell, a natural product chemist, liaised with Robert Perdue, a USDA botanist and analysed over 15,000 natural plants worldwide as well as testing 115,000 extracts for anticancer activity over the period from 1960 to 1981.
Chemists have different backgrounds, different areas of research (medicinal chemists, natural product chemists, chemists working in combinatorial synthesis, etc).
