Apparent asymmetry in fingerprint similarity searching is a direct consequence of differences in bit densities and molecular size

ChemMedChem

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1037-1042

  Wang, Yuan ^a   Eckert, Hanna ^a   Bajorath, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemoinformatics; Fingerprints; Molecular similarity; Tversky coefficients; Virtual screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 39449090192     PISSN: 18607179     EISSN: 18607187     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.200700050     Document Type: Article

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