Receptor flexibility for large-scale in silico ligand screens: Chances and challenges

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 443, Issue , 2008, Pages 353-364

  Fischer, B ^a   Merlitz, H ^b   Wenzel, W ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

FlexScreen; Side chain flexibility; Simulation; Thymidine kinase; Virtual screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934434863     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-177-2_18     Document Type: Article

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