A review on principles, theory and practices of 2D-QSAR

Current Drug Metabolism

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 346-379

  Roy, Kunal ^a,b   Das, Rudra Narayan ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graph theory; Physicochemical property; QSAR; QSPR; QSTR; Topological descriptors

Indexed keywords

ACID DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE MOLECULAR FIELD ANALYSIS; COVALENT BOND; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATION; REVIEW; THEORY; TWO DIMENSIONAL QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; DRUG DESIGN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DRUG DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84925783987     PISSN: 13892002     EISSN: 18755453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1389200215666140908102230     Document Type: Review

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