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Research Articles

Identification of the structural features of quinazoline derivatives as EGFR inhibitors using 3D-QSAR modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations and free energy calculations

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Pages 11125-11140 | Received 03 Feb 2021, Accepted 10 Jul 2021, Published online: 02 Aug 2021

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