Do not hesitate to use tversky - And other hints for successful active analogue searches with feature count descriptors

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1543-1562

  Horvath, Dragos ^a   Marcou, Gilles ^a   Varnek, Alexandre ^a  

^a Chimie de la Matière Complexe Université de Strasbourg   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCAFFOLDS;

BIAS PARAMETERS; BIOACTIVE AMINES; BIOACTIVE MOLECULES; COMPLEX QUERIES; QUERY COMPLEXITY; SCAFFOLD HOPPING; SIMILARITY SEARCHING; VIRTUAL SCREENING;

LIGANDS;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA MINING; DRUG DATABASE; DRUG SCREENING; INTERNET; PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DATABASES, PHARMACEUTICAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; INTERNET; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84880520518     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci400106g     Document Type: Article

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