Combinatorial Preferences Affect Molecular Similarity/Diversity Calculations Using Binary Fingerprints and Tanimoto Coefficients

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 163-166

  Godden, Jeffrey W ^a   Xue, Ling ^a   Bajorath, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a ALBANY MOLECULAR RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 0001535816     PISSN: 00952338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci990316u     Document Type: Article

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