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Sivakumar Prasanth Kumar1, Yogesh T Jasrai, Himanshu A Pandya

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Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics
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2D QSARantimalarialsgroup-based QSARpharmacophore-similarity-based QSAR (PS-QSAR)topological pharmacophore descriptors

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