Molpher: A software framework for systematic chemical space exploration

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hoksza, David ^a,b   Škoda, Petr ^b   Voršilák, Milan ^a   Svozil, Daniel ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chemical biology tools; Chemical space exploration; De novo design; In silico ligand design; Lead discovery; Structure generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899101876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-6-7     Document Type: Article

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