Towards in-house searching of Markush structures from patents

World Patent Information

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-103

  Barnard, John M ^a   Wright, P Matthew ^a  

^a Digital Chemistry Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical structure search; Combinatorial library; Drug design; In house searching; Markush structure; Oracle; Patents

Indexed keywords

EID: 61649111350     PISSN: 01722190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wpi.2008.09.012     Document Type: Article

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