Confab - Systematic generation of diverse low-energy conformers

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  O'Boyle, Noel M ^a,b   Vandermeersch, Tim ^b   Flynn, Christopher J ^a   Maguire, Anita R ^a   Hutchison, Geoffrey R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b Open Babel Development Team   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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EID: 79954537632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-3-8     Document Type: Article

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