Bioprospecting and Drug Development, Parameters for a Rational Search and Validation of Biodiversity

Abstract

Bioprospecting describe the procedure of exploration, extraction, screening and trading of new products using biological diversity as source. Bioprospecting process is a multidisciplinary enterprise that involves various research actors and scientific subjects. Also a bioprospecting program investigates the indigenous understanding about practices and characteristics of medicinal plants and animals as well as the search for formerly unidentified compounds in natural sources that have never been used in folk medicine. The aim of this editorial is to give a rational approach for design a bioprospecting program for drug development, useful for to initiate a search on the primary screening of new drugs from biodiversity.