The cloud and other new computational methods to improve molecular modelling

Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1121-1131

  Korb, Oliver ^a   Finn, Paul W ^b   Jones, Gareth ^c  

^a CAMBRIDGE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATA CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c ARENA PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Docking; Graphics processing units; Grid computing; Molecular dynamics; Molecular modelling; Multi core architectures; Virtual screening

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRID COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DRUG DISCOVERY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION;

EID: 84907428470     PISSN: 17460441     EISSN: 1746045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17460441.2014.941800     Document Type: Review

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