Chemical genetics: How does it function?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1825, 2004, Pages 2761-2774

  Westwood, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical genetics genomics; Chemistry biology interface; Diversity oriented synthesis; Drug discovery; Phenotype screening; Synthetic chemistry

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844237376     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1467     Document Type: Review

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