Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics: Key Technologies in the Drug Discovery Process

Antiparasitic and Antibacterial Drug Discovery: From Molecular Targets to Drug Candidates

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 45-57

  Krasky, Andreas ^a   Rohwer, Andreas ^a   Marhöfer, Richard J ^a   Selzer, Paul M ^a  

^a Intervet Innovation GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Bioinformatics; Comparative genomics; Docking; Drug design; Expressed sequence tags; Homology modeling; Nematodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959790744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527626816.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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