The diversity challenge in combinatorial chemistry

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-70

  Kauvar, Lawrence M ^a   Laborde, Edgardo ^a  

^a Terrapin Technologies Inc   (United States)

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