Mining of randomly generated molecular fragment populations uncovers activity-specific fragment hierarchies

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1405-1413

  Batista, José ^a   Bajorath, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOACTIVITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

CLASS-SPECIFIC INFORMATION; MOLECULAR FRAGMENT POPULATIONS; RANDOM FRAGMENT PROFILES;

MOLECULAR MECHANICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG DESIGN;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG DESIGN; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 34547678010     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci700108q     Document Type: Article

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