MarinLit is a database dedicated to marine natural products research. The database was established in the 1970s by Professors John Blunt and Murray Munro at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. It was designed as an in-house system to fulfil the needs of the University of Canterbury Marine Group and has evolved to contain unique searchable features and powerful dereplication tools. The extremely comprehensive range of data contained along with these powerful features makes MarinLit the database of choice for marine natural products researchers.
Comprehensive coverage of marine natural products in journal articles, including new and revised compounds, synthesis, ecology and biological activities.
MarinLit is text and structure searchable. Queries can be built across a number of fields and parameters. Along with comprehensive information on relevant published articles and compounds, MarinLit provides dereplication tools based on experimental and predicted data.
Full bibliographic data for each article indexed
Keywords, including source organism, biological activity, structural classes and relevant experimental details
Trivial names of all compounds in the article
Links to related articles, including structural revisions
Collection site data
Full taxonomy of producing organism
Name (including any synonyms)
Chemical structure
Compound properties, including exact mass, molecular formula, UV λmax and log Ɛ,
Systematic name, InChI and InChIKey
Calculated 13C and 1H NMR shifts and HSQC/DEPT provided by ACD/Labs
1H NMR structural features
Cross referenced with binding data in BindingDB
Searching possible on any combination of:
Substructure
NMR structural features
Calculated 13C and 1H NMR shift data
Exact mass, chemical formula, UV λmax and log Ɛ