Similarity Searching Using 2D Structural Fingerprints

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 672, Issue , 2011, Pages 133-158

  Willett, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical databases; Chemoinformatics; Data fusion; Fingerprint; Fragment substructure; Machine learning; Similar property principle; Similarity coefficient; Similarity measure; Similarity searching; Weighting scheme

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DATABASE; CHEMINFORMATICS; MACHINE LEARNING; MOLECULAR FINGERPRINTING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATICS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 79952115494     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-839-3_5     Document Type: Chapter

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