Current computational approaches towards the rational design of new insecticidal agents

Current Computer-Aided Drug Design

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 304-314

  Speck Planche, Alejandro ^a   Cordeiro, Maria Natália Dias Soeiro ^a   Guilarte Montero, Lisvey ^b   Yera Bueno, Reider ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Cuba)

Author keywords

3D QSAR; Docking; Fragments; Insecticides; Linear discriminant analysis; QSAR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

'CURRENT; 3D-QSAR; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; CROP DISEASE; CROP LOSS; DOCKING; FRAGMENT; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYZE; QSAR; RATIONAL DESIGN;

INSECTICIDES;

ABAMECTIN; ALDICARB; ALDRIN; AMINOCARB; AMITON; AMITRAZ; ANABASINE; BIFENTHRIN; CARBARIL; CHLORPHENOTANE; COUMAFOS; CYROMAZINE; DIMPYLATE; ECDYSTERONE; FONOFOS; FOSPIRATE; IMIDACLOPRID; INSECTICIDE; LIMONENE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NAPHTHALENE; PRECOCENE I; PYRETHRIN; TEBUFENOZIDE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 82955249832     PISSN: 15734099     EISSN: 18756697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340911798260359     Document Type: Review

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