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The power of deep learning to ligand-based novel drug discovery

Igor I. Baskina Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia;b Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, RussiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 755-764 | Received 24 Dec 2019, Accepted 17 Mar 2020, Published online: 31 Mar 2020

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