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Please take a look at the top 10 most accessed Natural Product Reports articles for the second quarter of 2013:

Natural product isolation – how to get from biological material to pure compounds  
Franz Bucar, Abraham Wube and Martin Schmid  
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 525-545  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP20106F 

Marine natural products  
John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro and Michèle R. Prinsep   
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 237-323  
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20112G 

Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature  
Wilfred A. van der Donk, et al.
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 108-160    
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20085F

Marine natural products: synthetic aspects 
Jonathan C. Morris   
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 783-805  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP20116C 

Hot off the press  
Robert A. Hill and Andrew Sutherland 
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 760-764  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP90015K  

The antibody-drug conjugate: an enabling modality for natural product-based cancer therapeutics  
Hans-Peter Gerber, Frank E. Koehn and Robert T. Abraham   
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 625-639  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP20113A 

The enzymes of β-lactam biosynthesis 
Refaat B. Hamed, J. Ruben Gomez-Castellanos, Luc Henry, Christian Ducho, Michael A. McDonough and Christopher J. Schofield 
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 21-107  
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20065A 

Simple indole alkaloids and those with a non-rearranged monoterpenoid unit  
Minoru Ishikura, Takumi Abe, Tominari Choshi and Satoshi Hibino  
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 694-752  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP20118J 

Using NMR to identify and characterize natural products  
Rosemary C. Breton and William F. Reynolds   
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 501-524  
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20104F 

Perspectives on natural product epigenetic modulators in chemical biology and medicine  
Fanny L. Cherblanc, Robert W. M. Davidson, Paolo Di Fruscia, Nitipol Srimongkolpithak and Matthew J. Fuchter 
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2013, 30, 605-624  
DOI: 10.1039/C3NP20097C 

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Curious about which articles published in 2012 gathered most readership? Here are the Top 10 works your colleagues have been accessing in Natural Product Reports:

Marine natural products
John W. Blunt, Brent R. Copp, Robert A. Keyzers, Murray H. G. Munro and Michèle R. Prinsep
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 144-222
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP00090C

Recent discovery of plant-derived anti-diabetic natural products
Hsin-Yi Hung, Keduo Qian, Susan L. Morris-Natschke, Chau-Shin Hsu and Kuo-Hsiung Lee
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 580-606
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP00074A

Advances in Aspergillus secondary metabolite research in the post-genomic era
James F. Sanchez, Amber D. Somoza, Nancy P. Keller and Clay C. C. Wang
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 351-371
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP00084A

Influenza neuraminidase: A druggable target for natural products
Ulrike Grienke, Michaela Schmidtke, Susanne von Grafenstein, Johannes Kirchmair, Klaus R. Liedl and Judith M. Rollinger
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 11-36
DOI: 10.1039/C1NP00053E

Natural products as kinase inhibitors
Jing Liu, Yi Hu, David L. Waller, Junfeng Wang and Qingsong Liu
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 392-403
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP00097K

The chemical ecology of cyanobacteria
Pedro N. Leão, Niclas Engene, Agostinho Antunes, William H. Gerwick and Vitor Vasconcelos
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 372-391
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP00075J

Electrophilic natural products and their biological targets
Malte Gersch, Johannes Kreuzer and Stephan A. Sieber
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 659-682
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20012K

The taxonomy, biology and chemistry of the fungal Pestalotiopsis genus
Xiao-Long Yang, Jing-Ze Zhang and Du-Qiang Luo
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 622-641
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP00073C

Aminobenzoates as building blocks for natural product assembly lines
Christopher T. Walsh, Stuart W. Haynes and Brian D. Ames
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 37-59
DOI: 10.1039/C1NP00072A

Strained cyclophane natural products: Macrocyclization at its limits
Tanja Gulder and Phil S. Baran
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2012, 29, 899-934
DOI: 10.1039/C2NP20034A

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