Natural products have been used since thousands of years for the treatment of a wide range of medical conditions in the form of traditional medicines. Today 60% of all new small molecule drugs are still derived from nature, and natural products have been the source or an inspiration for several approved drugs, e.g., for cancer treatment (taxol, epothilon), as immunosuppressant (ciclosporin) or anti-invectives (vancomycin, daptomycin) (fig. 1).
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