Use of Benford's law in drug discovery data

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 15, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 328-331

  Orita, Masaya ^a   Moritomo, Ayako ^a   Niimi, Tatsuya ^a   Ohno, Kazuki ^a  

^a ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; DRUG RESEARCH; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATION; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DRUG DISCOVERY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 77952544004     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2010.03.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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