Current trends in antimicrobial agent research: Chemo- and bioinformatics approaches

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 15, Issue 13-14, 2010, Pages 540-546

  Hammami, Riadh ^a   Fliss, Ismail ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BIOINFORMATICS; DATA BASE; DRUG RESEARCH; GENOMICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PROTEOMICS; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG DISCOVERY; HUMANS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 77954313195     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2010.05.002     Document Type: Review

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