<p>Lignins are a polymeric, renewable resource with remarkable structural diversity. Research is being conducted into the valorisation of lignins into value-added products. The absence of experimental libraries, in particular for process-modified oligomers, hampers analytical feedback to these valorisation efforts. Stochastic methods for generating libraries in-silico have been proposed, but were not designed for use with popular techniques such as high-resolution mass spectrometry. To resolve this, we developed Lignonaut, which is a toolkit for designing lignin libraries through virtual combinatorial synthesis. To ensure high interpretability we also developed new, diversity-oriented nomenclature for lignin oligomers, upon which an efficient SMILES translation algorithm could be built. Libraries of up to 10<sup>7</sup> oligomers could be generated, in linear time, and at a rate of 10<sup>6</sup> per minute.</p><p> <b>Scientific contribution</b></p><p>Lignonaut applies virtual combinatorial synthesis to exhaustively map lignin chemical spaces for e.g. high-resolution mass spectrometry. It is fast and can account for the high degree of isomerism in lignin oligomers, which were major limitations of previous stochastic approaches.</p>

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Lignonaut: designing diverse combinatorial libraries for the exploration and annotation of lignin oligomer spaces

  • Mynta Norberg,
  • Margareta Sandahl,
  • Peter Spégel

摘要

Lignins are a polymeric, renewable resource with remarkable structural diversity. Research is being conducted into the valorisation of lignins into value-added products. The absence of experimental libraries, in particular for process-modified oligomers, hampers analytical feedback to these valorisation efforts. Stochastic methods for generating libraries in-silico have been proposed, but were not designed for use with popular techniques such as high-resolution mass spectrometry. To resolve this, we developed Lignonaut, which is a toolkit for designing lignin libraries through virtual combinatorial synthesis. To ensure high interpretability we also developed new, diversity-oriented nomenclature for lignin oligomers, upon which an efficient SMILES translation algorithm could be built. Libraries of up to 107 oligomers could be generated, in linear time, and at a rate of 106 per minute.

Scientific contribution

Lignonaut applies virtual combinatorial synthesis to exhaustively map lignin chemical spaces for e.g. high-resolution mass spectrometry. It is fast and can account for the high degree of isomerism in lignin oligomers, which were major limitations of previous stochastic approaches.