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Wei Gao1, Yiqiao Wang2, B Basavanagoud3

  • 1School of Information Science and Technology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650500, China.

Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal : SPJ : the Official Publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society
|June 6, 2017
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Keywords:
Distance-based indexHexagonal jagged-rectangleMolecular graphTheoretical medicine

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