Chemical Structure from Scientific Research

Fifteen molecules of varying carbon chain lengths and complexity were chosen as an initial prototyping set for BioPKS pipeline to investigate if chimeric PKSs suggested by RetroTide would be able to construct the carbon backbones for each of these molecules. Both cyclic and aliphatic molecules were included in our set and amongst the aliphatic molecules, carbon backbones with as little as 3 (acrylic acid) and as many as 19 (nonadecene) carbon atoms were chosen to test the versatility of BioPKS pipeline in constructing scaffolds of different lengths.

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