QSAR Models for Toxicity of Organic Substances to Daphnia magna Built up by Using the CORAL Freeware

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 332-338

  Toropova, Alla P ^a   Toropov, Andrey A ^a   Benfenati, Emilio ^a   Gini, Giuseppina ^b  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balance of correlations; Daphnia magna; Optimal descriptor activity relationships; Quantitative structure; Simplified molecular input line entry system

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DAPHNIA; INFORMATION SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SMALL MOLECULE LIBRARIES; SOFTWARE;

DAPHNIA MAGNA;

EID: 84856055732     PISSN: 17470277     EISSN: 17470285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2011.01279.x     Document Type: Article

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