Visual analytics in cheminformatics: User-supervised descriptor selection for QSAR methods

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Martínez, María Jimena ^a   Ponzoni, Ignacio ^a   Díaz, Mónica F ^b   Vazquez, Gustavo E ^c   Soto, Axel J ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

^b PLAPIQUI UNS CONICET   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cheminformatics; Feature selection; QSAR; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939455735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13321-015-0092-4     Document Type: Article

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