Quantifying the chemical beauty of drugs

Nature Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 90-98

  Bickerton, G Richard ^a   Paolini, Gaia V ^b   Besnard, Jérémy ^a   Muresan, Sorel ^c   Hopkins, Andrew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Gaia Paolini Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS;

EID: 84856201851     PISSN: 17554330     EISSN: 17554349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1243     Document Type: Article

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