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LOTUS Search Natural Products

Search the LOTUS (naturaL prOducTs occUrrenceS) database for natural products by name, SMILES, or InChIKey. LOTUS is the largest open natural products database, containing 750,000+ structure-organism pairs from 35,000+ references. Returns compound IDs, structures (SMILES, InChI), molecular properties, and chemical taxonomy classifications. Supports searching by common name (e.g., 'caffeine'), SMILES string, or InChIKey.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 98msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 98ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "description": "Search query: compound name (e.g., 'caffeine', 'quercetin'), SMILES string, or InChIKey",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default LOTUS Search Natural Products call

public-safeinput

{
  "query": "BRCA1"
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_LOTUS_search_natural_products
Tool name: LOTUS_search_natural_products
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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