Publications

Scientific publications supporting the Initiative and describing its work.

IN PREPARATION

The Digital Botanical Gardens Initiative

A global, open-science framework for digitising plant chemodiversity in living botanical collections, drawing on more than 7,500 samples collected across five botanical gardens.

10.1093/gigascience/giag051

2026 GigaScience

METRIN-KG: a knowledge graph integrating plant metabolites, traits, and biotic interactions

Tandon, D., De Farias, T. M., Allard, PM., & Defossez, E. (2026). GigaScience.

10.1021/acscentsci.3c00800

2024 ACS Central Science

A sample-centric and knowledge-driven computational framework for natural products drug discovery

Gaudry, A., Pagni, M., Mehl, F., Moretti, S., Quiros-Guerrero, L.-M., Allard, PM., et al. (2024). ACS Central Science, 10(4), 494–510.

10.1093/gigascience/giac124

2023 GigaScience

Open and reusable annotated mass spectrometry dataset of a chemodiverse collection of 1,600 plant extracts

Allard, PM., Gaudry, A., Quiros-Guerrero, L.-M., Rutz, A., Dounoue-Kubo, M., Walker, T. W. N., et al. (2023). GigaScience, 12, giac124.

10.7554/eLife.70780

2022 eLife

The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research

Rutz, A., Sorokina, M., Galgonek, J., Mietchen, D., Willighagen, E., Gaudry, A., et al. (2022). eLife, 11, e70780.