Application of 3D Zernike descriptors to shape-based ligand similarity searching

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The identification of promising drug leads from a large database of compounds is an important step in the preliminary stages of drug design. Although shape is known to play a key role in the molecular recognition process, its applica...

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Main Authors: Venkatraman Vishwesh, Chakravarthy Padmasini, Kihara Daisuke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-12-01
Series:Journal of Cheminformatics
Online Access:http://www.jcheminf.com/content/1/1/19