Lotus search

Lotus search is a tool to search for compounds and taxa in the Lotus database.

What is LOTUS?

The LOTUS database is a database of natural products, their associated producing organisms and the bibliographical references in which the discovery or identification was made. It is hosted on Wikidata as the main source of truth.

It is the result of a pretty large collaboration within the LOTUS initiative.

During my PhD, I was working with devices that help separating components of mixtures and devices to analyze these components. However, a lot of manual handling of samples was required between these different devices. So I decided to re-purpose an existing device to solve that. After a little bit of reverse-engineering and the development of a custom control software, problem was solved.

NAPRALERT is a leading database containing >40 years of the natural products literature.