Prof. Dr. Fernando B. Da Costa

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPharmacy,Natural Product Chemistry
KeywordsAsteraceae, biological assays, chemoinformatics, natural products, chromatography

Current contact address

CountryBrazil
CityRibeirao Preto
InstitutionUniversidade de Sao Paulo (USP)
InstituteFaculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (FCFRP)
Homepagewww.asterbiochem.org

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Johann GasteigerComputer-Chemie-Centrum, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2003

Programme(s)

2003Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008Fernando B. Da Costa, Dimitar Hristozov, Johann Gasteiger Multilabeled classification approach to find a plant source for terpenoids.. In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling , 2008, 56-67
2007Ricardo Stefani, Fernando B. Da Costa: Computer-assisted structure elucidation of organic compounds. In: Carlton A. Taft, Carlos H. T. P. Silva., Current Methods in Medicinal Chemistry and Biological Physics. Research Signpost, 2007. 101-124
2007Dimitar Hristozov, Fernando B. Da Costa, Johann Gasteiger: Sesquiterpene Lactones-Based Classification of the Family Asteraceae Using Neural Networks and k-Nearest Neighbors. In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2007, 9-19
2005Fernando B. Da Costa, Lothar Terfloth, Johann Gasteiger: Sesquiterpene lactone-based classification of three Asteraceae tribes: a study based on self-organizing neural networks applied to chemosystematics. In: Phytochemistry, 2005, 345-353
2004Fernando B. Da Costa, Yuri Binev, Johann Gasteiger, Joao Aires-de-Sousa: Structure-based predictions of 1H NMR chemical shifts of sesquiterpene lactones using neural networks. In: Tetrahedron Letters, 2004, 6931-6935