Are the physicochemical properties of antibacterial compounds really different from other drugs?

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ebejer, Jean Paul ^a,b   Charlton, Michael H ^a   Finn, Paul W ^a,c  

^a INHIBOX LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibacterials; ChEMBL; Cheminformatics database analysis; Drug like compounds; Molecular properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975796082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13321-016-0143-5     Document Type: Article

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