Open Drug Discovery Toolkit (ODDT): a new open-source player in the drug discovery field
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Open Drug Discovery Toolkit (ODDT): a new open-source player in the drug discovery field
BACKGROUND There has been huge progress in the open cheminformatics field in both methods and software development. Unfortunately, there has been little effort to unite those methods and software into one package. We here describe the Open Drug Discovery Toolkit (ODDT), which aims to fulfill the need for comprehensive and open source drug discovery software. RESULTS The Open Drug Discovery To...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cheminformatics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1758-2946
DOI: 10.1186/s13321-015-0078-2