Mapping of activity-specific fragment pathways isolated from random fragment populations reveals the formation of coherent molecular cores

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2133-2139

  Lounkine, Eugen ^a   Batista, José ^a   Bajorath, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PROBABILITY;

CHEMICAL INFORMATION; FRAGMENT HIERARCHY; MOLECULAR CORES; MOLECULAR FRAGMENT;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 37249031865     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci700251b     Document Type: Article

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