Mass Spec Algorithm Sorts Known from New Natural Product Drug Candidates

Scientists are being given the opportunity to use a new algorithm that can search through the mass spectra of potentially billions of microbial-derived compounds in the hunt for promising new drug candidates that haven’t previously been investigated. The algorithm, called Dereplicator+, can identify already known compounds within repositories and eliminate them from further analyses, so that only novel compounds are evaluated. It's unbelievable how many times people have rediscovered penic