Processing Natural And Biological Extracts

Natural compounds are increasingly important in many research and development areas. Their structural diversity is supplemented by the synthetic potential of combinatorial chemistry. New classes of substances to be discovered, the highly diversified nature of these compounds and their chiral properties hold the promise of numerous market opportunities to whoever can find them first. This reservoir of nature is almost inexhaustible. Pharmaceutical research is just beginning to exploit it at a larger scale. Access to the inexhaustible reservoir of natural compounds has become much wider in recent years. However the same does not apply to the respective methods of automatic processing.

Fractionation and separation of samples obtained form nature remain time-consuming. tedious and extremely expensive, even though the assays for testing these samples have become faster and cheaper thanks to advanced high throughput screening processes.

Processing natural product extracts proves to be a major bottleneck in the process of drug discovery.