One molecular fingerprint to rule them all: drugs, biomolecules, and the metabolome

Abstract Background Molecular fingerprints are essential cheminformatics tools for virtual screening and mapping chemical space. Among the different types of fingerprints, substructure fingerprints perform best for small molecules such as drugs, while atom-pair fingerprints are preferable for large...

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Main Authors: Alice Capecchi, Daniel Probst, Jean-Louis Reymond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Cheminformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13321-020-00445-4