Development of CDK-targeted scoring functions for prediction of binding affinity

Nayara Maria Bernhardt Levin1, Val Oliveira Pintro2, Gabriela Bitencourt-Ferreira2

  • 1Laboratory of Computational Systems Biology, School of Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Av. Ipiranga, 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619-900, Brazil; Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Av. Ipiranga, 6681, Porto Alegre, RS 90619-900, Brazil.

Biophysical Chemistry
|February 7, 2018
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