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Record W4413103676 · doi:10.1021/acscentsci.5c00804

An Assessment of Chemical Diversity in Microbial Natural Products

2025· review· en· W4413103676 on OpenAlexafffund
Roger G. Linington

Bibliographic record

VenueACS Central Science · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMicrobial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
FundersNational Center for Complementary and Integrative HealthNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaNational Institutes of HealthOffice of Dietary Supplements
KeywordsNatural (archaeology)Diversity (politics)Biochemical engineeringData scienceComputer scienceComputational biologyBiologyEngineering

Abstract

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Natural products continue to play important roles in biomedical, agricultural and ecological science. Yet despite ongoing advances in "omics" technologies, including genomics, transcriptomics, phenomics and metabolomics, there is still no clear consensus on the scope and scale of chemical diversity in the natural world. The evolution and maturation of chemical databases for natural products offer opportunities to explore this question from a range of different perspectives. This Outlook will use data from the Natural Products Atlas to examine rates of similarity and variation among biosynthetic classes of molecules, to explore how structure can be related to function, and to examine the scope and scale of new scaffold discovery in the current era of natural products science. It presents an examination of known chemical diversity, investigates what this diversity can tell us about potential translational applications, and explores how current knowledge informs what we might expect to discover in future studies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.009

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.350
Teacher spread0.322 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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